I tried and bought this Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain Plugin a few months ago and I like it, though I haven’t used it enough yet to feel 100% comfortable with it.
You can use it as a channel strip as well as a mastering plugin because it has saturation, EQ, compressor/limiter, filters, etc.
It’s modeled after the EMI TG12410 Console used in all Abbey Road’s mastering suites since the early ’70s to this day. (Used on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Nirvana’s In Utero, Radiohead’s OK Computer and Ed Sheeran’s “+” and so many more.)
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I’ve used it a few times on spoken word and voiceover. There was a preset I liked that really polished up some fairly good quality audio to begin with. I would tweak a few things to get levels where I needed them. I’ll use it some for sure. I really got it for music production, but so far have only had it on spoken word, which made me happy just the same. It’s interesting how this and the other Abbey Road console emulations work nicely for dialog. It makes me wonder if it’s close enough to the old school gear used for movies and other dialog heavy content. Really nice plugin indeed.