German: g vs. g

Hey guys, can anyone tell me how to figure the pronunciation of “ig” at the end of a German word? I had been doing it like “ich” in all cases, but I watched a video where a guy (Rainer Joswig, the Lisp programmer, as it happens) pronounced his name like “ik”.

Have I been doing it wrong, or is this just dialectical?

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'ch' in 'noch' is pronounced like the Scottish 'ch' sound in 'loch ness'. 'ch' in 'becher' is pretty much impossible to pronounce for Americans (at least I have yet to meet an American who can pronounce it) so you can just pronounce it as 'sh' as in 'ship'. It's not the same sound at all, but people will understand you just fine.