Digidesign 888/24 is included in the list of consoles, mixers and interfaces.

Used for sampling into Pro Tools for Mule Variations, as stated by producer Jacquire King in this interview from issue 9 of Audio Technology Magazine.

All this tape detail brings us to the questions about the reasons for Mule Variations’ analogue bias, whether Waits is an analogue stalwart, and if so, why his interest in using ProTools?

Jacquire King: "I think Tom definitely feels that analogue has a better overall sound, though I don’t think he looks down on digital. For this album he wanted to experiment with playing loops, and the possibility of changing the arrangements on the songs. I suspect he’d been hearing from friends and associates how powerful ProTools was and wanted to check it out. But the overall sound of the album is analogue. ProTools is just a component. I did some loops, such as Tom’s mental hotel bashing on Big In Japan, the Optigan keyboard sound on Lowside Of The Road, and the vinyl needle sound on Black Market Baby. On Filipino Box Spring Hog I actually changed the arrangement of some of the overdubs, though the drum and vocal performance are true to the take. In the latter track there were also some voices that Tom had recorded into a small toy sampler for kids, and I sampled that into ProTools. All this was manipulated in ProTools and then laid back to tape.

"I have a large ProTools system – 24 I/O, with three 888 interfaces and 40GB of hard drive space. I just love the things I can do with it, in terms of looping, vocal comping, pitch correction, changing arrangements and so on. I’m not a big fan of ProTools’ plug-ins though. I believe real life analogue effects sound better. I love the way analogue sounds. What’s so great is that it’s possible to get a reaction from analogue, by overloading the tape. Also analogue reigns supreme for transient sounds, like drums and percussive-type things. But the advantages ProTools offers you, in terms of being able to manipulate sound and fine tune things, are awesome. So I strongly believe in using them both together. Because I did almost only looping, I used ProTools very minimally on Mule Variations."

King laid down all ProTools elements to the analogue 24-track for the mix, which also took place at Prairie Sun, without automation.

888/24 interface is included in the list of computer hardware and software used to record the Recoil album* Unsound Methods*.

Digidesign 888 is included in list of Mark's studio gear.

Though Vrenna does most of his recording work in Pro Tools, he still likes his “trusty [Yamaha] 02RV2. It's seven years old. I have it loaded with four AES cards, which gives me 32 [channels]. Then I have one extra 888/24 set up as a hardware insert box, where I just have XLR snakes. I can use all my external stuff while I'm mixing.”

“The Pro Tools hardware that is plumbed in here is the old 888 system running from a G4 with as much memory in it as you can cram. That really hasn’t changed but all I use that for is recording. There’s no point in upgrading this at the moment because it is good quality, zero latency recording, and that’s all I need from it. In the other room we have a traveling system which is a Pro Tools 8, 192 HD3 setup. Manipulations and assemblies tend to happen in the second rig in my main room which has a Logic 7/Native/MOTU system on it."