Meter made
While TG Mastering Chain’s onboard metering amounts to nothing more than an LED ladder peak meter, the included TG Meter Bridge plugin provides the same three meters used by Abbey Road’s engineers with the real TG12410. Handily, you only need one instance of it in a project, too, as the Track Menu drop-down enables any instance of TG Mastering Chain running in the host project to be routed to it.
The topmost section models the Genesis Systems DPM 101 peak programme meter, and features a Hold option for persistent indication of the highest peak until reset. Below that, a pair of VU meters give feedback on the RMS average, and can be calibrated using the unmarked screwheads below. And on the left hand side, the vertically orientated linear phase correlation meter lets you keep an eye on the phase relationship between the left and right channels, and, consequently, how mono-compatible your mix is.
The monitoring source signal for all three meters is set using the red knob, which steps between Input, Gain Reduction (only active when the Limiter is active, natch) and Output.
TG Meter Bridge looks great and is perfectly responsive, although some level of ballistics adjustment for the VUs wouldn’t go amiss.