Archetype SFX

A powerful sound effects library for your weighty, cinematic films

Introducing Archetype SFX, a new library of sound effects from Lens Distortions. As with all our products, we went to great lengths to source, capture, and curate this library to include only the best and most useful effects.

Archetype SFX

Powerful, iconic sound effects for weighty films

Archetype SFX

Archetype SFX

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Archetype Sound Effects

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Overview

Create Cinematic Gravitas

You have a vision. Not just for how your project will look, but for how it will feel. Strong visuals grab your viewer’s attention, but proper sound design is essential for a visceral experience.

Archetype SFX offers iconic sound effects for your weighty, powerful projects.

Highly Versatile

We strove to keep a certain rawness to the sounds. They are not so over-produced, which helps them work well in a huge variety of projects.

The clips are great individually, but are made for mixing and matching. You can create interesting new sounds when you combine them with other sounds from the library.

6 Distinct Categories

With 120 original effects across 6 useful categories, you’ll be able to quickly find the perfect sounds.

MEMBERSHIP FAQ

Access for a single-user* to all products and songs that are currently availabe on our website.

Our mobile app is not included. The subscription on our website and the subscription in our mobile app are entirely separate.

Browse the VFX, SFX, Color, and Photo pages to familiarize yourself with our product lineup. You can preview our entire song catalog on the Music page.

*Our Elite Membership offer the best value for teams with 5 or more people.

Generally, all professional video editing softwares are compatible: Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Davinci Resolve, After Effects, LumaFusion, etc

Each of our product lines (VFX, SFX, Color, etc) has slightly varied compatibility, so click a link below to learn more about the specific editing software each product line is compatible with:

VFX compatibility
Color compatibility
SFX compatibility
Photoshop compatibility

Our VFX products are delivered as ProRes files, some also offer an H264 option.

SFX products and Music are provided as WAV and MP3.

Finishing LUTs are standard .cube LUT files.

Photo products are Photoshop actions + image files.

The membership covers social media, client work, all forms of advertising, and YouTube monetization.

TV programming, VOD (Netflix, etc), and theatrical releases require an Elite Membership.

Assets must be incorporated into a project with other footage, photographs, etc.

Example of things you cannot do include:

  • Share files or accounts with friends
  • Incorporate our assets into any sort of product
  • Upload music to Spotify, Apple Music, etc
  • Upload songs by themselves to Youtube, Facebook, etc
  • Use our music or sound effects as part of your own music or record vocals on our tracks
  • Claim ownership of any of our assets with Youtube’s Content ID

Please review the full license agreement for more details.

Upload to YouTube and monetize with confidence!

We provide you with two easy methods to automatically clear copyright claims within minutes.

1) Register a YouTube channel to automatically clear copyright claims on any video containing Lens Distortions tracks. 

2) Generate License Codes for a specific project. Just include the codes in your video’s description when uploading to YouTube and any claims will automatically clear within minutes. This is a great solution for client projects or if you manage multiple YouTube channels.

Videos published while your membership is active are covered forever.

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For small teams, simply activate a single-user membership for each person on your team.

For larger teams, consider purchasing an Elite plan, which covers multiple users and extended placements.

If you cancel, your membership will remain active until the end of your current subscription period and will not renew. Subscription fees are not refundable.

Any projects you publish while the subscription is active are covered forever but you will no longer have a license to use any assets moving forward and must delete all downloaded files from your computer.

A Visceral Experience

Sound has the ability to lift a film off the screen. It makes you feel a scene. The best filmmakers leverage great sound design to draw you in, to create tension, and to resolve it.

This library was made specifically for cinematic projects. It’s not light and bubbly. All the elements are there to create the weight and impact you’re looking for.

Highly Versatile

As a filmmaker, you’ve learned to trust your eye. You have a vision in your head of how things will look, and more fundamentally, how things will feel. There is no off the shelf solution to give you exactly what you’re going for. What you need is the right raw ingredients at your disposal and you’ll tinker till it feels just right.

And that’s exactly what we set our to provide you with in Archetype. We wanted to avoid overly produced sounds that work great in one project but are often just a little off for what you need. The tonal ranges had to play nicely with both the music tracks and the voice overs. The creative control had to be left in your hands.

We wanted to make great sound design attainable for filmmakers of any budget and experience level. The library is professional mastered, compatible with all editing platforms, and is completely royalty free.

Each individual sound can hold its own on the timeline. Sometimes a single effect is all you’ll need to complete the scene. But the multitude of combinations available means you’ll be able to craft unique layers of sound tailored directly to your film.

6 Distinct Categories

With 80 original effects across 6 categories–risers, hits, whooshes, glitches, undertones and atmospheres– you’ll be able to quickly find the perfect sounds. 

Professional Grade

Inspiring sound design is now attainable for filmmakers at every level of the game. The sounds are professionally mastered and compatible with all major editing platforms, including Adobe Premiere, Final Cut X, DaVinci Resolve, and more.

Music

Individual

  • Access to all Music
  • Personal, freelance, and client work
  • Covers social media, websites, and web advertising
  • Monetize on YouTube
  • Pre-clear 5 YouTube channels
  • No SFX, VFX or LUTs
  • No Broadcast or Streaming
$299
/year
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Music & SFX

Individual

  • Access to all Music & Sound Effects
  • Personal, freelance, and client work
  • Covers social media, websites, and web advertising
  • Monetize on YouTube
  • Pre-clear 5 YouTube channels
  • No VFX or LUTs
  • No Broadcast or Streaming
$399
/year
Choose Plan
Best Value
All-Access

Individual

  • Access to all Music & Sound Effects
  • Access to all VFX and LUTs
  • Personal, freelance, and client work
  • Covers social media, websites, and web advertising
  • Monetize on YouTube
  • Pre-clear 5 YouTube channels
  • No Broadcast or Streaming
$599
/year
Choose Plan

General FAQ

No: we price based on the total number of employees of the buying entity (including video and non-video roles), not on the number of users.

The Freelance plan is for freelance work and is exclusively available to a self-employed individual or company with 7 or fewer employees total (including video and non-video roles).

If you are an in-house editor at a brand, agency, or any organization with 8+ employees across all roles, you must purchase a Business plan in order to legally use our assets. Please contact [email protected] for a quote.

Our Freelance plans cover work for external clients with 1,000 or fewer employees. If you work on projects for clients with more than 1,000 employees, you have two options:

  1. If you often have large clients, a Business Plan might be the best fit. Reach out to us via the Business Plans tab.
  2. If you often have large clients, you can get a quote to increase the client size limit on your plan.

Our Freelance plans cover web and social media advertising, YouTube monetization, and film festival submissions. If you need to use our assets in streaming/broadcast ads, streaming/broadcast programming, theatrical releases, or anything else not covered by our Freelance plan license, please get in touch.

Assets must be “synchronized” into a video or podcast project with other media and may not be used on their own. Assets may not be used to create new musical works.

Examples of things you cannot do:

  • Share files or accounts with other people
  • Make music with our assets or sing over our tracks
  • Incorporate our assets into any sort of product or app
  • Upload our assets to Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
  • Upload assets by themselves to YouTube, Facebook, etc.
  • Automatically or excessively download our assets

Please review the full license agreement for full terms.

Yes! Upload to YouTube with confidence! We’ll never mute a Member’s video or have it removed.

Our assets are registered with YouTube’s Content ID system and YouTube will notify you that it has detected copyrighted music in your video. But don’t worry: this has no negative effect on your video or channel.

If you want to monetize your channel, simply connect your YouTube channel to your Lens Distortions account to pre-clear the channel for use with our assets.

Alternatively, you can create singe-use license codes to include when uploading your video in lieu of registering your channel. This option is great for clients you don’t work with on an ongoing basis.

Rest assured, videos cleared while your membership is active remain cleared forever.

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, etc are already cleared and do not currently require you to register your account or use License Codes.

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No: we only offer annual plans. We’re focused on long-term relationships with customers who benefit from year-round access to world-class assets. While our annual plans are a larger investment up-front, they pay for themselves with only a few projects.

Yes! You can upgrade to a higher plan at any time. Changes will take effect immediately.

If you’re already a member, visit the Upgrade Plan page to choose a new plan and see your prorated price at checkout. Upgrading will always start a new annual period, but you will receive a credit for unused time on your current subscription.

Please note the “Total Due Today” and “First Renewal” on the checkout screen to understand what and when you will pay.

Memberships provide access to our platform to quickly find and download individual assets as needed for projects. They aren’t intended for the member to have entire albums or libraries downloaded to their hard drive.

You’re certainly welcome to download as many individual assets as you genuinely need for your current projects, but to prevent abuse, our system may notify you if it detects excessive downloading. Most members rarely run into this as they usually only download a handful of files on any given day.

Projects completed while a member are licensed forever, but the assets you download aren’t. Since the assets downloaded during membership are only licensed for use while a member, it wouldn’t be feasible to deliver entire libraries to members as they would have hundreds/thousands of unlicensed files floating around on their computers if they chose to cancel their membership.

If you choose to cancel, your membership will remain active until the end of your current subscription period.

Once your subscription ends, you will no longer have permission to use any assets you’ve downloaded in new projects.

Don’t worry, any projects you already published while your membership was active are covered forever and you will not retroactively receive copyright claims.

Membership fees are not refundable.

You can create a free account and download a watermarked preview of any music track and add assets to project playlists.

These “temp tracks” are great for seeing if a track is a good fit for your project or client. Simply activate a membership when you’re ready to officially use a track.

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