  We present our results obtained from gauge cooled complex Langevin
simulations in 1+1d QCD at non-zero densities in the strong coupling regime
with unrooted staggered fermions. For small quark masses there are regions of
the chemical potential where this method fails to reproduce correct results. In
these parameter ranges we studied the effect of different gauge cooling schemes
on the distributions of the fermion determinant as well as of observables.
