Phys. Rev. E (23feb00), resubmitted (25apr00), cond-mat/0002363) Elastic and inelastic incoherent neutron scattering experiments are simulated for simple models: a rigid solid (as used for normalisation), a glass (with a smooth distribution of harmonic vibrations), and a viscous liquid (described by schematic mode-coupling equations). As long as the spectral distribution of the input scattering law does not vary with wavenumber, it is only weakly distorted by multiple scattering. The wavenumber dependence of the scattering intensity suffers much more.