diff --git a/src/soundevent/audio/spectrograms.py b/src/soundevent/audio/spectrograms.py
index 77667b0..8a262a0 100644
--- a/src/soundevent/audio/spectrograms.py
+++ b/src/soundevent/audio/spectrograms.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ def compute_spectrogram(
         nperseg=nperseg,
         noverlap=noverlap,
         axis=0,
+        mode="magnitude"
     )
 
     # Convert to xarray