diff --git a/TTS/tts/configs/fast_pitch_config.py b/TTS/tts/configs/fast_pitch_config.py
index d02e54c9..7e294896 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/configs/fast_pitch_config.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/configs/fast_pitch_config.py
@@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ class FastPitchConfig(BaseTTSConfig):
 
     # optimizer parameters
     optimizer: str = "Adam"
-    optimizer_params: dict = field(default_factory=lambda: {"betas": [0.9, 0.98], "weight_decay": 1e-6})
+    optimizer_params: dict = field(default_factory=lambda: {"betas": [0.9, 0.998], "weight_decay": 1e-6})
     lr_scheduler: str = "NoamLR"
     lr_scheduler_params: dict = field(default_factory=lambda: {"warmup_steps": 4000})
     lr: float = 1e-4
-    grad_clip: float = 1000.0
+    grad_clip: float = 5.0
 
     # loss params
-    ssim_loss_alpha: float = 0.0
+    ssim_loss_alpha: float = 1.0
     dur_loss_alpha: float = 1.0
     spec_loss_alpha: float = 1.0
     pitch_loss_alpha: float = 1.0
diff --git a/TTS/tts/models/fast_pitch.py b/TTS/tts/models/fast_pitch.py
index 989866ae..60a1654a 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/models/fast_pitch.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/models/fast_pitch.py
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ class FastPitch(BaseTTS):
         o_en_dr, mask_en_dr = o_en, mask_en
 
         # Predict durations
-        o_dr_log = self.duration_predictor(o_en_dr.detach(), mask_en_dr)
+        o_dr_log = self.duration_predictor(o_en_dr, mask_en_dr)
         o_dr = torch.clamp(torch.exp(o_dr_log) - 1, 0, self.max_duration)
 
         # TODO: move this to the dataset
@@ -560,6 +560,7 @@ class FastPitch(BaseTTS):
         # Predict durations
         o_dr_log = self.duration_predictor(o_en, mask_en)
         o_dr = torch.clamp(torch.exp(o_dr_log) - 1, 0, self.max_duration)
+        o_dr = o_dr * self.length_scale
 
         # Pitch over chars
         o_pitch = self.pitch_predictor(o_en, mask_en).unsqueeze(1)
@@ -606,7 +607,7 @@ class FastPitch(BaseTTS):
             mel_input,
             mel_lengths,
             outputs["durations_log"],
-            torch.log(1 + durations),
+            durations,
             outputs["pitch"],
             outputs["pitch_gt"],
             text_lengths,
diff --git a/recipes/ljspeech/fast_pitch/train_fast_pitch.py b/recipes/ljspeech/fast_pitch/train_fast_pitch.py
index 5bc5f448..4b852d12 100644
--- a/recipes/ljspeech/fast_pitch/train_fast_pitch.py
+++ b/recipes/ljspeech/fast_pitch/train_fast_pitch.py
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ config = FastPitchConfig(
     use_phonemes=True,
     phoneme_language="en-us",
     phoneme_cache_path=os.path.join(output_path, "phoneme_cache"),
-    print_step=25,
-    print_eval=True,
+    print_step=50,
+    print_eval=False,
     mixed_precision=False,
     output_path=output_path,
     datasets=[dataset_config]