Diminished volume could well be a DSP config problem, yes. If you're starting to get static, that's just normal signal breakup - the DSP doesn't invent static and mix it in when the signal level drops.

It's not user changeable - well, not in release builds anyway. I suspect we won't be doing a release that changes this until the v2.0 betas (otherwise v2.0 will just get later) but in theory a sensitivity slider could be added to emplode to tweak this behaviour - but I'm wary of changing the default that others are happy with.

Hugo