diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index 4666e5d0..b4fbd7a5 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   "lr": 0.00001875,
   "warmup_steps": 4000,
   "batch_size": 1,
+  "eval_batch_size": 32,
   "r": 5,
 
   "griffin_lim_iters": 60,
diff --git a/train.py b/train.py
index 288dad24..8ca4ed78 100644
--- a/train.py
+++ b/train.py
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ def main(args):
                               c.power
                              )
 
-    val_loader = DataLoader(val_dataset, batch_size=c.batch_size,
+    val_loader = DataLoader(val_dataset, batch_size=c.eval_batch_size,
                             shuffle=False, collate_fn=val_dataset.collate_fn,
                             drop_last=False, num_workers= 4,
                             pin_memory=True)