I need to mute sound vars by their name

I need to be able to mute all sounds that I have. the sounds arn't continuous so .pause() is not a solution. this is what my audio looks like:

var soundName = new Audio("sound/soundname.wav","sound/soundname.ogg","sound/soundname.mp3");
    soundName.play();

I want to mute it the moment I click on a div called #mute but this doesn't work:

$("#mute").click(function(e) { 
soundName.mute()
});

I do not understand a single thing about the HTML 5 player plugins so that's why I need a temporary solution untill I do understand that. I've tried many things. Including the simple solutions. but my audio needs to be able to overlap. and that is only possible with the :

var name = new audio();

as far as i know