<function name="EmitSound" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc"> <description> Emits the specified sound at the specified position. See also <page>Entity:EmitSound</page> if you wish to play sounds on a specific entity. <note> Valid sample rates: **11025 Hz, 22050 Hz and 44100 Hz**, otherwise you may see this kind of message: `Unsupported 32-bit wave file your_sound.wav` and `Invalid sample rate (48000) for sound 'your_sound.wav'` </note> </description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="soundName" type="string">The sound to play This should either be a sound script name (<page>sound.Add</page>) or a file path relative to the `sound/` folder. (Make note that it's not sound**s**) </arg> <arg name="position" type="Vector">The position where the sound is meant to play, which is also used for a network filter (`CPASAttenuationFilter`) to decide which players will hear the sound.</arg> <arg name="entity" type="number" default="0">The entity to emit the sound from. Can be an <page>Entity:EntIndex</page> or one of the following: * `0` - Plays sound on the world (position set to `0,0,0`) * `-1` - Plays sound on the local player (on server acts as `0`) * `-2` - Plays UI sound (position set to `0,0,0`, no spatial sound, on server acts as `0`)</arg> <arg name="channel" type="number" default="CHAN_AUTO">The sound channel, see <page>Enums/CHAN</page>.</arg> <arg name="volume" type="number" default="1">The volume of the sound, from 0 to 1</arg> <arg name="soundLevel" type="number" default="75">The sound level of the sound, see <page>Enums/SNDLVL</page></arg> <arg name="soundFlags" type="number" default="0">The flags of the sound, see <page>Enums/SND</page></arg> <arg name="pitch" type="number" default="100">The pitch of the sound, 0-255</arg> <arg name="dsp" type="number" default="0">The DSP preset for this sound. [List of DSP presets](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Dsp_presets)</arg> <arg name="filter" type="CRecipientFilter" default="nil" added="2023.10.25">If set serverside, the sound will only be networked to the clients in the filter.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Plays magical sound on first player.</description> <code> -- Plays the sound attached to the given entity (by its entity index) EmitSound( Sound( "garrysmod/save_load1.wav" ), Entity(1):GetPos(), 1, CHAN_AUTO, 1, 75, 0, 100 ) EmitSound( "garrysmod/save_load1.wav", Entity(1):GetPos(), 1, CHAN_AUTO, 1, 75, 0, 100 ) -- Plays the sound in any custom position EmitSound( Sound( "Weapon_AR2.Single" ), Entity(1):GetPos() ) EmitSound( "Weapon_AR2.Single", Entity(1):GetPos() ) </code> </example>