diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2.py b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2.py
index bdc0372789..0425ad5e53 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class Kilosort2Sorter(KilosortBase, BaseSorter):
         "detect_threshold": 6,
         "projection_threshold": [10, 4],
         "preclust_threshold": 8,
+        "whiteningRange": 32,  # samples of the template to use for whitening "spatial" dimension
         "momentum": [20.0, 400.0],
         "car": True,
         "minFR": 0.1,
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ class Kilosort2Sorter(KilosortBase, BaseSorter):
         "detect_threshold": "Threshold for spike detection",
         "projection_threshold": "Threshold on projections",
         "preclust_threshold": "Threshold crossings for pre-clustering (in PCA projection space)",
+        "whiteningRange": "Number of channels to use for whitening each channel",
         "momentum": "Number of samples to average over (annealed from first to second value)",
         "car": "Enable or disable common reference",
         "minFR": "Minimum spike rate (Hz), if a cluster falls below this for too long it gets removed",
@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@ def _get_specific_options(cls, ops, params):
         ops["NT"] = params[
             "NT"
         ]  # must be multiple of 32 + ntbuff. This is the batch size (try decreasing if out of memory).
-        ops["whiteningRange"] = 32.0  # number of channels to use for whitening each channel
+        ops["whiteningRange"] = params["whiteningRange"]  # number of channels to use for whitening each channel
         ops["nSkipCov"] = 25.0  # compute whitening matrix from every N-th batch
         ops["nPCs"] = params["nPCs"]  # how many PCs to project the spikes into
         ops["useRAM"] = 0.0  # not yet available
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2_5.py b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2_5.py
index abde2ab324..b3d1718d59 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2_5.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort2_5.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class Kilosort2_5Sorter(KilosortBase, BaseSorter):
         "detect_threshold": 6,
         "projection_threshold": [10, 4],
         "preclust_threshold": 8,
+        "whiteningRange": 32.0,
         "momentum": [20.0, 400.0],
         "car": True,
         "minFR": 0.1,
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ class Kilosort2_5Sorter(KilosortBase, BaseSorter):
         "detect_threshold": "Threshold for spike detection",
         "projection_threshold": "Threshold on projections",
         "preclust_threshold": "Threshold crossings for pre-clustering (in PCA projection space)",
+        "whiteningRange": "Number of channels to use for whitening each channel",
         "momentum": "Number of samples to average over (annealed from first to second value)",
         "car": "Enable or disable common reference",
         "minFR": "Minimum spike rate (Hz), if a cluster falls below this for too long it gets removed",
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ def _get_specific_options(cls, ops, params):
         ops["NT"] = params[
             "NT"
         ]  # must be multiple of 32 + ntbuff. This is the batch size (try decreasing if out of memory).
-        ops["whiteningRange"] = 32.0  # number of channels to use for whitening each channel
+        ops["whiteningRange"] = params["whiteningRange"]  # number of channels to use for whitening each channel
         ops["nSkipCov"] = 25.0  # compute whitening matrix from every N-th batch
         ops["nPCs"] = params["nPCs"]  # how many PCs to project the spikes into
         ops["useRAM"] = 0.0  # not yet available
diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort3.py b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort3.py
index 3d2103ea66..f560fd7e1e 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort3.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/external/kilosort3.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ class Kilosort3Sorter(KilosortBase, BaseSorter):
         "detect_threshold": 6,
         "projection_threshold": [9, 9],
         "preclust_threshold": 8,
+        "whiteningRange": 32,
         "car": True,
         "minFR": 0.2,
         "minfr_goodchannels": 0.2,
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ class Kilosort3Sorter(KilosortBase, BaseSorter):
         "detect_threshold": "Threshold for spike detection",
         "projection_threshold": "Threshold on projections",
         "preclust_threshold": "Threshold crossings for pre-clustering (in PCA projection space)",
+        "whiteningRange": "number of channels to use for whitening each channel",
         "car": "Enable or disable common reference",
         "minFR": "Minimum spike rate (Hz), if a cluster falls below this for too long it gets removed",
         "minfr_goodchannels": "Minimum firing rate on a 'good' channel",
@@ -212,7 +214,7 @@ def _get_specific_options(cls, ops, params):
         ops["NT"] = params[
             "NT"
         ]  # must be multiple of 32 + ntbuff. This is the batch size (try decreasing if out of memory).
-        ops["whiteningRange"] = 32.0  # number of channels to use for whitening each channel
+        ops["whiteningRange"] = params["whiteningRange"]  # number of channels to use for whitening each channel
         ops["nSkipCov"] = 25.0  # compute whitening matrix from every N-th batch
         ops["scaleproc"] = 200.0  # int16 scaling of whitened data
         ops["nPCs"] = params["nPCs"]  # how many PCs to project the spikes into