El Juan Limiter
A classic software limiter redefined: a seamless combination of familiar feel and expanded versatility.
$29.99
A classic reimagined into a 21st-century platform for "limitless" creativity.
The El Juan Limiter brings a wealth of features designed to maximize loudness, shape audio tones and provide creative control over your audio loudness. Drawing inspiration from a pioneering audio plugin that has left an indelible mark on the industry, the EJL pays homage to an iconic plugin by incorporating a range of new features and enhancements. Our EL Juan captures the clarity and ease of the original, and then goes beyond with expanded options for stereo processing, versatile release settings, waveshapers, customizable tone shaping curves, oversampling, and dithering capabilities.
Whether you're an expert mastering engineer, a mix engineer ready to give your tracks that last bit of shine, or a producer shaping your sounds, the El Juan Limiter is here for you to dive into some cool new audio adventures. Packed with awesome features, it works with your creative touch to take your sound to the next level.
An intuitive, familiar front panel
Adjustable Release
- MANUAL: Sculpt the sound to your exact specifications. Precisely dial in the release time, giving you exact control over the tail of your compression.
- AUTO: Inspired by the Auto-Release curve of "that" legendary British Console bus compressor, this mode brings that classic, time-tested glue to your tracks.
- SYNC: for processing that pulses and breathes with the rhythm, SYNC mode ensures that the compression dynamically moves in sync with your track. This is the ultimate in "Glue."
Stereo or Dual Mono
When enabled (linked), both channels will be processed together. When disabled (unlinked), the two dual mono channels respond to signals independently. This is super awesome for processing stereo groups that have varying audio in them, like toms, overheads, doubled vocals, etc..
Enhanced features for more creativity and versatility
Input Shaping
The Input Section Waveshapers allow you to shape the character of the audio before it enters the limiter.
- Flat: No additional processing yields a natural, what-goes-in is what-goes-out sound.
- Round: Add harmonics to your input signal, resulting in warmer and more musical sonic content.
- Punchy: Increase the perceived loudness and punchiness of your signal before it hits the limiter section. Yow bazinga!
Tone Control
Control the tonal balance of the audio going into the limiter for creative processing of grouped busses and individual tracks.
- Flat: Leaves the frequency response unchanged.
- Thick: Enhances low-frequency content for a fat, warm sound.
- Presence: Boosts midrange frequencies for increased articulation in the 2k -5k region.
- Bright: Emphasizes high-frequency content for sparkle and air up there.
- Hype: Adds an exciting, exaggerated tonal character to the top and bottom for energy and punch.
Expanded Dithering
On the El Juan, dithering isn't something that just reduces processing artifacts. It's a creative tool for your sonic experiments.
- 24/16bit: Standard dithering options for uncolored, HR processing.
- Variable Low Resolution: A slider lets you explore dithering options down to 4 bits. Get colors ranging from a touch of lo-fi to the sounds of vintage samplers to the grind of bit-crushing. The El Juan isn't just for mastering.
Videos and Media
Colorful Tones Studio El Juan Limiter Walkthrough
Colorful Tones Studio's first impression of El Juan in action.
Soundwarp Studios EJL review
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Sheen ITB reviewing EJL's features.
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EJL review from Sean & Dan.
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Music Surgery’s Bobby Huff details the EL Juan Limiter.
Korneff Plugin Licensing
Software Based
Four Activations
Connections
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: El Juan Limiter
Minimum System Requirements
- Intel, AMD or Apple Silicon i5 quad core processor
- 4GB of RAM
- Mac OSX 10.14 or higher
- Windows 7 & Above
- Screen res: 1024 x 768 or higher
Why use anything else? Extreme ‘WOW’ factor. The EJL works great in any channel setting albeit summoned or mixing. It’s second to none and extremely versatile. Korneff Audio steps up to plate and knocks it out of the park.
I have been asked to leave a review for El Juan, Well I can say I am a fan of the plugin, I would describe it as a character plug in for what I like it for, it has a certain "sound" that I like, I use it very sparingly , just to tickle a […]
El Juan Limiter works as advertised and is a joy to use!
El Juan is fantastic. It's my new "go-to" on instrument tracks. The extra options are just what i need. Mid-Side, input saturation and coloration, drywet... perfect match for any sound you want to control or squash!
The Korneff "El Juan" is a very powerful problem-solver. I use it in every mix, BUT NOT on every channel! You can bring nearly any channel upfront and centre in that way everybody is used to listen to. So if your vocals are allmost ready to print, but still lack that last 5% of commitment […]
I've been doing this for about 20 years now and the El Juan is one of the best limiters I've used. Very flexible, clever features, some really cool presets. The El Juan is turning up in all sorts of places on my mixes. Thanks Korneff!
Crushing the competition. It crushed my tracks. Just get it I’ll stop with the tropes.
Love this plugin. Sounds to me like a Limiter with an analog vibe.
In a sea of limiters, this one stands out as one of the best!!
easy to use.flexible in use.range from clean to saturated.i like it and actually use it
Love love love this thing. Use it on every mix.
Hello, the brilliant Korneff team and happy owners of the El Juan limiter! El Juan instantly found its place in my creative life. He can appear in the most unexpected place.) I can’t even begin to describe where... Everywhere!!!! I am grateful to my colleague who introduced me to Korneff Audio! I have all your […]
This is a great plugin. I use it on my master bus for every mix. Highly recommend.
This is the best Limiter I've ever used! Korneff Audio constantly blow my mind with the quality of each release. I have all the plug-ins so far and I use them all every day in my mixes. I can't believe the other companies are so far behind what Korneff are bringing to the table. The […]
Korneff Audio strikes again! El Juan filled a hole and gave a lot of extra functions on top of that. Simply the best!
I have a love hate relationship with this limiter... I love the features, especially after the update, but I hate that it works so well on some material, but on others, it really, really does not. Still, I'm very glad to have it in my plugin locker and definitely use it, especially on more EDM […]
It an Amazing tool
Slapped it in the stereobus, balanced my tracks a bit into them, adjusted the two big sliders in seconds and it sounded done! Big smile.
EXCELENT PLUGIN VERY USABLE SHAPER AND TONE PARAMETERS ARE SO USEFULL.
Better than any Limiter in Pro Tools or LogicPro!!!!!! I am so grateful to have found an awesome Limiter and it is EL Juan Limiter by Korneff Audio!!!!!! Sincerely, Epic Enki
Amazing plugin! It has all the modern features one would want and it SOUNDS AMAZING. It's my new go to limiter.
Superb...
facil de usar y limitacion limpia
the tempo sync and stereo un-link are amazing features that should be standard on EVERY limiter. This is great!
I love it! EL Juan Limiter gives tracks, or the whole mix, that natural analog touch that is hard to achieve in the digital ecosystem. I almost always use it on guitars to give them a touch of analog dirt.
So much better than the un-named counterpart from W****. The extra features make it a killer.
Great sound! Using it
good for punch