diff --git a/src/debug.h b/src/debug.h
index 1176db1fd..211cd4dcc 100644
--- a/src/debug.h
+++ b/src/debug.h
@@ -169,4 +169,13 @@ if (level <= log_level) Logger(level).Get()
 
 #endif
 
+#ifdef DEBUG
+#define DEBUG_TIMER_EVENT(name) struct timeval name = { 0, 0 }; gettimeofday(&name, NULL)
+#define DEBUG_TIMER_START(name) DEBUG_TIMER_EVENT(name##_start);
+#define DEBUG_TIMER_STOP(name) DEBUG_TIMER_EVENT(name##_stop); log_msg(LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG2, "%s duration: %lf s\n", #name, tv_diff(name##_stop, name##_start)) // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-vararg, hicpp-vararg)
+#else
+#define DEBUG_TIMER_START(name)
+#define DEBUG_TIMER_STOP(name)
+#endif
+
 #endif
diff --git a/src/rtp/audio_decoders.cpp b/src/rtp/audio_decoders.cpp
index d43cd5e69..70948555c 100644
--- a/src/rtp/audio_decoders.cpp
+++ b/src/rtp/audio_decoders.cpp
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ int decode_audio_frame(struct coded_data *cdata, void *pbuf_data, struct pbuf_st
                 return FALSE;
         }
 
+        DEBUG_TIMER_START(audio_decode);
         audio_frame2 received_frame;
         received_frame.init(decoder->saved_desc.ch_count,
                         get_audio_codec_to_tag(decoder->saved_audio_tag),
@@ -702,6 +703,7 @@ int decode_audio_frame(struct coded_data *cdata, void *pbuf_data, struct pbuf_st
                 packet_counter_clear(decoder->packet_counter);
         }
 
+        DEBUG_TIMER_START(audio_decode_compute_autoscale);
         if(!decoder->fixed_scale) {
                 for(int i = 0; i <= decoder->channel_map.max_output; ++i) {
                         double avg = get_avg_volume(s->buffer.data, bps,
@@ -710,6 +712,8 @@ int decode_audio_frame(struct coded_data *cdata, void *pbuf_data, struct pbuf_st
                                         s->buffer.data_len / output_channels / bps, sample_rate);
                 }
         }
+        DEBUG_TIMER_STOP(audio_decode_compute_autoscale);
+        DEBUG_TIMER_STOP(audio_decode);
         
         return TRUE;
 }