BYOD (Bring Your Own Distortion) is an awesome freeware configurable guitar distortion effect available in various formats such as VST, AU, AAX, and LV2 plugin formats from Chowdhury DSP. Chowdhury DSP’s BYOD is a highly flexible guitar distortion effect. It allows users to construct unique guitar pedals by combining several guitar FX modules.
Tone shaping, distortion, impulse responses, gain settings, and other guitar FX components are included in the plugin. It allows the user to mix and match the various components to build their own guitar multi-effects.
Your homemade guitar pedals can be saved as presets for subsequent usage. So, if you’ve always wanted to make a Tube Screamer with a bass boost and a custom EQ curve but lacked the skills, now’s your opportunity.
BYOD contains a dry/wet slider for convenient parallel processing and input/output controls for gain staging, among other features. It also has built-in oversampling, mono/stereo processing modes, and undo/redo.
The user interface is simple, with distinct colored components and buttons that are easily apparent. Because the central panel can be resized at will, the plugin will function at any screen resolution.
Here is what the developer said about BYOD:
“Build-Your-Own-Distortion (BYOD) is an audio plugin that allows the user to create custom guitar effects, focusing on guitar distortion.” “The plugin contains emulations of guitar distortion and tone-shaping circuits from various sources, along with a handful of other useful effects.”