Last week the Conservatorium (the public school of music here in Italy) where I work in Trento, bought a new mixer for the electronic music studio. It’s a Mackie 1640i with ADC/DAC included, so you can connect 16 in and 16 out to your computer through a single firewire cable (no more wires, wow!).

Looking at the box, I saw the usual set of icons (this side up, fragile, keep dry, etc), but there was one more. A single icon featuring the Jarod face and saying ALIEN SAFE.

ALIEN SAFE???

Here it is. Click the images to enlarge.