-=> Quoting Roger Fingas to Lee Jackson <=-
 RF> Yes, but most of us can't afford the cards you have at 3D
 RF> Realms!
That more or less makes my point - most won't have a sound system (card
plus speakers) that's good enough for extremely fancy mixing to make much
difference.  Too expensive.  While I'd be able to tell, listening to the
output of a CardD+ (if it's in Windows) or an AWE64 Gold through our pair
of Event 20/20bas near-field monitors, the average user with his onboard
Vibra 16 chip and the pair of generic speakers that came with his system
(frequency response 150Hz-12000Hz) will be lucky if he can understand
what's being said.  Proportionally mixing a tiny clink with a big clunk
won't matter much to him.
 RF> The example they use for the sound variation is hitting a
 RF> monitor with a baseball bat (haven't we all wanted to do that at some
 RF> point?).  If you tap the monitor glass lightly, it'll make a light
 RF> "clink" noise.  However, if you wind up and smash the monitor into
 RF> microscopic pieces, it'll make one heck of a racket, right?
That's more action based, and doesn't really require a complicated mixing
system.  Set a threshold, below which you get a clink, and above which you
get an imploding tube.  That's pretty close to the way it works in real
life.
 RF> Someone's a Monty Python fan, eh?
 RF> Lemon curry?  ;-)
Very few up at the office who aren't into Python.  It's sort of a
prerequisite for employment.  Future job applications will ask questions
to this effect. 
    -Lee
... "A shroe, a shroe, my dingkom for a shroe" - Ring Kichard the Thrid
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