Great tutorial - no hard sell, just honesty and authentic enthusiasm.

The best Waves tutorial EVER!!! Perfectly explained, no fancy bullshit. Ian's not claiming the plugin is anything it's not. Great song, really well produced and mixed. I purchased this on Black Friday, and use it on every master now. Gives great colour to a flat mix.

best waves tutorial i've ever seen

wow. love that gentle boost in the mid lows at 256...makes the vocal sound like butter!

Ian's videos are always a treat

A master class on gain staging. So helpful! Thank you, Ian!

Simple and straightforward tutorial. Loved it.

Ian explains mastering very well, I've yet to carry out this on my track, pdf guide, fair play no pressure to purchase anything, you could end up buying books dvds non stop costing a fortune, all you need is someone to be honest and willing to teach the basics of mastering to a beginner, I'm sure my track prove to me just how genuine Ian is, thanks very verg very much, excellent video

Thank you, Ian for this incredibly helpful video. I struggled to get a proper sound for so long but this video showed me everything that I needed. Very much appreciated Waves Audio!

I hope you realise how much easier you've made my job just with this great video. Thanks! 🥳

Always come back to this video every now and then for a refresher, thank you kindly ❤️🙏🏽

I like the A to B idea for level comp. This can be hard to get across to people. I also was experimenting on studio rack and found some really interesting ideas with the multiband rack, using the J37 with wow and flutter only on the high mid. This was on an already mixed song but worth a try for adding life to a dead vocal in an already mixed song.

This Tutorial is absolutely amazing!

Thank you for that video. I experimented with the TG1 and I was quickly able to archive a great mastered song. And I love the flow of the signal.

Nice work, Ian. Teaching and explaining well is an art. Keep these coming. Thank you…

I LOVE THE MASTERING PROCESS YOU CHOOSE PER SONG. I AM LEARNING MORE FROM YOU.. IAN SHEPHERD THANK YOU!

Fantastic for anyone looking to understand mastering and also understanding the abbey road mastering chain! I still use this plugin in most of my mastering sessions.

Ah always nice to see Ian. The mastering show is brilliant!

I've used this extensively now. It's surprisingly easy to dial in a great finish to your track using this. When the limiter is set to "original" it works well as a glue compressor, and the EQ is great, especially when set to a wide Q. Excellent tool.

I really like this plugin. I used it extensively on my 2020 album.

Just a great honest tutorial. Super helpful. Love the Abbey Rds x J37 combo in my chain.

Thank you Ian, I really like the detail in explaining the mastering chain here, especially the gain structure.

Superb tutorial, truly gave me a better understanding of how gain staging and metering will give you better results, thank you.

Great tutorial and explanation Ian. Thanks. Hugely appreciated. Stay safe ✊🏾

Excellent video and great choice of song. Thanks Ian.

Excellent! No regular Waves promotional nonsense. Great stuff!

Ian you are brilliant. That is all. Thank you for sharing your brilliance with us, Waves, thanks for giving people like Ian a larger platform to disseminate such viable information.

My favourite Waves plug.

The TG Mastering Chain is an amazing plugin.

Thanks for laying it all out for us Ian!

Fantastic presentation Ian!

This is exactly where I was looking for!

Superior explanation. Thank you for the free gift.

I use the TG On every mix. Thank you Ian for your many insights and flavor choices. My hardest thing is getting fooled by loudness I know that it is happening but it still gets me., and sometimes you just have to ride faders to do a comparison. Your method looks pretty easy once I get the hang of it.

Thx Ian!! Thx Waves!!jus got the Abbey bundler . Learning...........much appreciated. cheers!!

Mastering tips from a master! Thank you for this : ) Well done, buddy!

Waves have gotten Ian Shepherd which is a great idea!

exelent demostration! thank you for this piece of gold! :-)

Finally someone that knows something about mastering !! thanks... love the settings you go trough... TX !!

Excellent Video! Great knowledge, really well explained. Thank you!

Very informative! Thank you so much for this video!

Super tutorial, as ever! Great catch at 21:00!

Great. More mastering video please!

Very nice tutorial. Thanks a lot.

Always great. Always - thank you sir.

Awesome! Thank you so much!

What upp Ian great tips bro.. I love this plug in as well. You don't have to use every setting on it. I also have the WLM a blessing. Keep doing your thing Waves always a supporter. Stay Up

Super useful! Thank you!

Bizarely, this helps make sense why I have been pulling the output to -3db when using modern on my master channel in my DAW. In the manual, they said they had designed "Modern" specifically for more modern mastering usage. I think the original would sound great or more analogue style music, the modern definitely sounded more clean which personally I liked on this electronic vibed music, but all preference.Thanks, great tutorial

Well explained, thank you.

Thanks for this - I have the Abbey Road suite and this is definitely a must-watch. Great work!

i use the tg mastering chain on every track i do since buying it, its so good

Ian: It would very interesting to hear your thoughts on the sidechain in the Limiter section (which is only seen if the module is expanded). As there are 3 different frequency areas that can affect the sidechain, it would undoubtedly help views to hear whether you favor engaging one or more of them, and if not, why. Thanks.

Great video. Thank you.

Just awesome, thanks so much

This video is so helpful!!! Thanks for this :)

Very helpful!!! Thank you!!

Useful, Imma try this one, thank you

Million $ advice, great Thanks

Brilliant master class, Ian ! . . . I Love the TG MC . . . Yet, I've been struggling with it, in my mix, and You just found and solved the problem, quite simply and nicely! (-; . . . I simply switched to the "Original" setting, and the dynamic nuances have returned to my tracks, as I prefer . . . ! . . . 🙂 (-; Many Thanks, Brian (-;

good stuff , thank you.

How to use this plugin first thing disable half of it

Thank you for sharing this

😧😦😮😯😲😳🤯, WOWZ !!!!! All the plugs Ian used I have. Great tutoring.

Thankyou Ian ✌️

Great video and great explain of the level metering.....one question:in the final chain there is a gain plug in but is working?Ian is using it for compensate the volume and increase it?

Excellent video Ian, thanks very much. One of the clearest explanations of Gain staging and VU meter use. I'd love to see more tutorials like this. Seems like there is still quite a difference in the threshold levels of both the 'modern' and 'original' compressor settings which makes it a little more tricky to compare them. I imagine it'd be a pretty rare case in which you'd do 10dB compression on a master.

great video. now i have a request. can you make a video of step by step mixing of this song?

Awesome

I was about to say the same thing. He knows his shit !

Thank you.

Ian on Waves Channel? Means Waves did their homework ;)

Great tutorial very informative thank you so much . I have watched it more than 10 times, i can't find the song .

Where can I buy this song? Well written, performed, produced and mastered ... a great example track for a very good tutorial YT vid ;)

Very nice job, Ian. Thank you! I learned a lot and am looking forward to implementing your suggestions!

Ian is an absolute legend in dis ting!

Sweet song too

Thanks a lot, worth it...

DOPE!

its a brilliant plugin. if you know how to use it . your on a winner

It was about time you brought Ian

Ian thank you for this video! Hope you and your family are doing well. I have a question or two. So I have all the gear in this video and I used to to do a master of one of my mixes with your exact settings and it sounded great by far my best work. My question is I want to get my song louder I want my wlm meter to read; -short term -7lufs -long term -7lufs -range 1 -momentary -5.5lufs -truepeak -1.5 and true peak limiter to read -1.5. (Those are the levels of Dojacat say so which is currently charting pretty high, it has a fantastic master sound and I want to achieve a sound something like that) any advice on what I need to do? Also love your website btw been on it all yesterday! Thanks

i was not board with the tutorial of this plug-in. IAN , i really like how that plug-in brought life to that track. i appreciate your time and who is the artist of the song ?

Hi Ian...thank you for a great informative video. Regarding the VU meter settings, would you say that having it set to -18 headroom is best for the mix bus/pre-master before starting the mastering process? Many thanks...

Great demo. Although you disabled the first half of the plugin. Diabolical song especially the higher delayed processed background vocal.

maybe because i'm a hip hop guy, but do I hear the bottom losing movement? That deep low that the pre master had. I always seem to notice that in masters. Some how always lose that bottom where it counts.

Great video! I am still confused about something...Where should I put the Ar Tg Meter, WLM Meter and VU Meter on the mastering channel? Before the TG Mastering plugin or after?

Ian!

Thanks for the video -- very informative as always. I note, though, that Makeup Gain was raised about 1.5dB, even though earlier said you try not to use it -- what are we looking out for there? Also, with recommendations of mastering to (approx.) -14dB for many streaming services, is your recommendation of 11db on the VU meter equal to -11dB for output (and wouldn't that then be louder than streaming recommendations)? Thanks for clarifying these issues.

Great tutorial! Thanks Ian! I’m about to master my own song for the first time. 😃 Let’s say you want the abbey Road sound but you also have to do some surgical cuts. Would it make sense to use another eq before the the tg?

Nice

A few bucks later...........im getting green ticks!!!!! awesome instruction, thank you.

There seems to be so much snake oil in the mastering world but this was far from that. Really great video, saved for reference.

Does this work with abbey roads vinyl instead of j36? Thanks for the tutorial as well

So what would you use to master heavy music?What kind of plugin?

Great demo. Tx! One question reagrding the gain plugin you're using. I don't have this particular one. What do you recommend as replacement? Is it really necessary to have it here? Tx.

please , how do u get a clean crisp mix?

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Is anyone using this method with Cubase? and where is all this going? on the Master Stereo out or the actual track that the song is on??

What song is this? Its good