Audio Mixers For PCs?

ps writes: "Like many people, I work in a cubicle. I am also surrounded by several computers each with their own speakers and sound cards. And people complain that they are too loud (the volume won't go any lower!) I would love to have a simple "mixer" that I could wire in all my sound cards to one set of headphones. Nothing fancy, I just want to hear the alerts on all my boxes. Any ideas? I don't want to spend a fortune on this..." As michael puts it, like an KVM switch, but for audio.

Comments

Change your sounds

[dead_penguin]

It might be enough to change the sounds played on all of these events. Some sounds just are really "abrasive", and get annoying fast. That quickly makes them sound louder than they actually are. Experiment with what works best.

If that still doesn't help, just take your favourite sound editor and modify the sounds so they're at half-volume on disk. Either way, you've got a solution that can be set up in a short period of time for no money at all.