Loud Soundboard: 53 Sounds, Free to Play

What this page covers

This board is the loud end of the library: screams, alarms, thunder, buzzers, burps and at least two clips whose titles carry an earrape warning. It exists because sometimes the joke is volume, and because the people who use these sounds need to know exactly how loud they are before they press them in a call.

A warning before the table: several rows peak at full scale with no headroom. If you are wearing headphones and your system volume is up, lower it before you audition anything here. The rest of this page tells you which rows are the dangerous ones and how to use them without hurting anyone.

Every sound on this board

The table below is the board as measured. Titles that include a warning — "earrape", "very loud", "warning" — were labelled that way by the uploader, which makes them the most honest rows on the site. Treat those labels as instructions rather than as part of the joke.

Why loud is a genre

Volume is the cheapest effect available and the easiest to misuse, which is exactly why it became a genre of its own. A scream is funny when it arrives where a sentence was expected; a buzzer is funny when it contradicts what someone just said. The humour comes from the mismatch, and the volume is only there to make sure the mismatch cannot be ignored.

That also explains why loud clips age badly. The first time, the surprise does the work. The second time, the listener is braced, and what is left is just noise. If you have used a scream on someone once, using it again in the same session is not a callback, it is a repeat.

The genuinely useful rows here are not the screams. Thunder, alarms and buzzers are functional sounds: they mark a failure, a deadline or a dramatic pause, and they can be used repeatedly because nobody is expected to laugh at them.

Loud, in headphones, is a different act

There is a real difference between playing a scream into a room and playing it into someone's ears through a call. In a room, the listener can move away; through headphones, the sound is delivered directly and the volume is not theirs to control in the moment. That is the line between a prank and an injury, and it is not a subtle one.

If you are playing into a voice call, keep the master volume low and let the clip's own mix do the work. A "very loud" row played at thirty per cent system volume still reads as a scream; played at a hundred per cent it reads as an assault, and the person on the other end will remember the volume rather than the joke.

Streamers have an additional problem: the clip goes into the recording as well as into the stream. Use a limiter on the browser source, set the ceiling a few decibels below full scale, and check the recording afterwards. A clip that sounds fine live can still clip the exported file.

The rows worth learning

The buzzer is the most reusable sound on this board. It answers a wrong answer, a failed attempt or a bad idea, and it does it in under a second with no risk of hearing damage. If you only learn one row here, learn that one.

Thunder is the one for atmosphere. It runs long, it has a low end that most speakers cannot reproduce, and it works as a scene-setter rather than a punchline. Played quietly under a conversation, it changes the mood of a call in a way a scream cannot.

The screams are the set pieces. They are effective, they are the reason the board exists, and they are the reason the warnings are printed in the titles. Use them once, on someone who can take it, at a volume you would want used on you.

Playing these on Discord and OBS

A web page cannot push audio into a Discord voice channel, so the working setups are a virtual audio cable the browser plays into, or a browser source in OBS with audio monitoring on. Both put the sound into the mix at whatever level your system is set to — which means the volume slider in your operating system, not the page, is the thing that decides how loud the joke is.

On a phone, loud clips are worse than on a laptop. Phone speakers distort well before they get loud, so an earrape row turns into a buzz and a rattle, which is unpleasant in a way that is not funny. If you are playing to a room from a phone, use the buzzer.

Questions people ask

Are these actually the loudest sounds you have? They are the loudest uploads on this board, which is not the same thing. Loudness depends on the file's mastering, and some rows are loud by title only.

Why keep the earrape rows at all? Because removing them would make the board a lie about what the family contains, and because the warning in the title is useful information: it tells a reader which rows to avoid.

Can a loud clip damage speakers? A phone speaker, yes, if it is already at maximum and the clip is clipped. Laptop speakers usually distort before they fail. Headphones are the risk that matters, and that risk is to the person wearing them.

How this board is maintained

Titles are kept as uploaded, warnings included. Rows that fail the site's content screen are removed before the count in the heading is taken, so the number in the title matches the table a reader can actually press.