big, deafening, loud, powerful
We need a big powerful sound from the trumpets in the final passage.

audible
faint, little, soft
high, high-pitched
deep, low
clean, clear, sharp
He produces a good clean sound on his flute.

piercing
muffled
amazing, beautiful, good, lovely, pleasing, sweet
His film opens with the sweet sound of birdsong.

awful, horrible, sickening
There was a sickening sound as his head made contact with the concrete.

familiar
different, strange
We experimented with different sounds.

distinctive
haunting
beeping, booming, buzzing, clanking, clicking, etc.
metallic
electronic
hollow
distorted
distant
the distant sound of church bells

musical
guitar, piano, etc.
She tried to describe what made a good guitar sound.

speech, vowel
natural
the mixing of recorded and natural sound

ambient
There's a lot of ambient sound in this film.

hear, listen for, listen to
He listened for sounds of movement.

emit, make, produce, pronounce, transmit, utter
What's making that awful creaking sound?
Three bones transmit sounds to the inner ear.
He didn't utter a single sound throughout the meeting.

use
She uses all the sounds available to a 21st-century composer.

be filled with
The room was filled with the sound of laughter.

awake to, be woken by, wake to, wake up to
I awoke to the sound of rain.

be interrupted by
jump at
He jumped at the sound of my voice.

carry, travel
Sound carries well over calm water.

come
A strange sound came from the box.
My mouth moved but no sound came out.

echo, fill, ring out
A hollow sound echoed through the room.

die away, fade, fade away
grow louder

wave
effect
bite
As a politician he is a master of the 30-second sound bite.

at the sound of
He turned around at the sound of footsteps behind him.

without a sound
The door opened without a sound.

sound of
the sound of breaking glass

sound from
There was a strange sound from downstairs.

break the sound barrier
the speed of sound

mono, stereo, surround
recorded
great
a game with good graphics and great sound

turn down, turn off, turn up
Can you turn the sound up?

get

level, quality
system
a stereo sound system

recording
engineer
card

live
The band developed a formidable live sound.

different, new, unique
beautiful, great
Franz Ferdinand have a great sound that's their own.

signature
the band's signature sound

create, develop
The Moog synthesizer created a whole new sound.

be, look, seem

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
reasonably
The roof is in reasonably sound condition.

structurally
Is the building structurally sound?

safe and sound (= not hurt)
We finally arrived home safe and sound.

be, seem

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
That seems like fairly sound advice.

perfectly
She had a perfectly sound reason for acting as she did.

basically, fundamentally
ecologically, environmentally, financially, ideologically, scientifically, technically, theoretically
It was a financially sound investment.

Sound is used with these nouns:
advice, archive, argument, barrier, base, basis, capability, card, check, clip, common sense, economy, effect, engineer, file, finance, footing, foundation, fundamentals, investment, judgement, knowledge, management, mix, pattern, plan, practice, quality, reason, reasoning, recording, reflection, reproduction, science, sculpture, signal, sleep, start, strategy, studio, system, tape, technician, thrashing, vibration, wave