*sound of brakes being applied suddenly*
Mixing to me is pushing the sliders, adjusting the volumes and that sort of thing. Not much if you ask me, but I would also think that they are the same to some degree.
Well it may not sound difficult to you but there's a fine art to getting the levels perfectly right, then scooping and boosting EQ so things aren't colliding with one another needlessly, punching things in and out as need be, compressing the levels to even the dynamic range up as need be.. a lot of work goes into mixing, you know. Even fine adjustments of less than a dB can make quite a difference to the listening experience of the song. Consider the job that Blue Room would have been, probably 24 tracks (if not more) times 40 minutes of _heavily_ layered techno which all needs to be seen to, mixed and engineered. It's a pretty demanding task being a mix engineer in control of all that. --kwook