The noise gate stinks

When I talk, Noisetorch cuts off the beginning of what I say, and sometimes comma and period pauses. It has a very overactive noise gate, which should probably be disabled completely because noise gates tend to be flawed. It suppresses background fan sounds well, but that's the only thing I want it doing; I should be running my own noise gate if I want one. Even voice activation on 0% is too overactive.