diff --git a/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.cc b/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.cc
index f0dd8c7e3..ecebd781f 100644
--- a/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.cc
+++ b/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.cc
@@ -146,6 +146,15 @@ CaptureChannel::CaptureChannel ()
   tl::info.add (this, false);
   tl::error.add (this, false);
   tl::warn.add (this, false);
+
+  //  Because we don't want to capture logger messages, we switch verbosity to "silent" during capturing
+  m_saved_verbosity = tl::verbosity ();
+  tl::verbosity (0);
+}
+
+CaptureChannel::~CaptureChannel ()
+{
+  tl::verbosity (m_saved_verbosity);
 }
 
 void CaptureChannel::puts (const char *s)
diff --git a/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.h b/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.h
index c24fa9714..98f5eda02 100644
--- a/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.h
+++ b/src/tl/tl/tlUnitTest.h
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ class TL_PUBLIC CaptureChannel : public tl::Channel
 {
 public:
   CaptureChannel ();
+  ~CaptureChannel ();
 
   std::string captured_text () const
   {
@@ -210,6 +211,7 @@ protected:
 
 private:
   std::ostringstream m_text;
+  int m_saved_verbosity;
 };
 
 /**