diff --git a/middleware/accesslog/accesslog.go b/middleware/accesslog/accesslog.go
index 592f888f..33dd3eef 100644
--- a/middleware/accesslog/accesslog.go
+++ b/middleware/accesslog/accesslog.go
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ var (
 // A new AccessLog middleware MUST
 // be created after a `New` function call.
 type AccessLog struct {
-	mu sync.Mutex // ensures atomic writes.
+	mu sync.RWMutex // ensures atomic writes.
 	// The destination writer.
 	// If multiple output required, then define an `io.MultiWriter`.
 	// See `SetOutput` and `AddOutput` methods too.
@@ -348,91 +348,143 @@ func (ac *AccessLog) Broker() *Broker {
 // Also, if a writer is a Closer, then it is automatically appended to the Closers.
 // It's safe to used concurrently (experimental).
 func (ac *AccessLog) SetOutput(writers ...io.Writer) *AccessLog {
-	ac.mu.Lock()
 	ac.setOutput(true, writers...)
-	ac.mu.Unlock()
-
 	return ac
 }
 
 // AddOutput appends an io.Writer value to the existing writer.
 // Call it before `SetFormatter` and `Handler` methods.
 func (ac *AccessLog) AddOutput(writers ...io.Writer) *AccessLog {
-	ac.mu.Lock()
 	ac.setOutput(false, writers...)
-	ac.mu.Unlock()
-
 	return ac
 }
 
-func (ac *AccessLog) setOutput(reset bool, writers ...io.Writer) { // protected by caller.
-	if reset {
-		/*
-		   Initial idea was to wait for remaining logs to be written
-		   in the existing writer before resetting to the new one.
-		   But, a faster approach would be to just write the logs
-		   to the new writers instead. This can be done by:
-		   1. copy all existing closers and flushers,
-		   2. change the writer immediately
-		   3. fire a goroutine which flushes and closes the old writers,
-		       no locks required there because they are not used for concurrent writing
-		       anymore. Errors there are ignored (we could collect them with sync errgroup
-		       and wait for them before exit this Reset method, but we don't).
-		*/
-		if len(ac.Flushers) > 0 || len(ac.Closers) > 0 {
-			flushers := make([]Flusher, len(ac.Flushers))
-			copy(flushers, ac.Flushers)
+func (ac *AccessLog) setOutput(reset bool, writers ...io.Writer) {
 
-			closers := make([]io.Closer, len(ac.Closers))
-			copy(closers, ac.Closers)
+	/*
+	   Initial idea was to wait for remaining logs to be written
+	   in the existing writer before resetting to the new one.
+	   But, a faster approach would be to just write the logs
+	   to the new writers instead. This can be done by:
+	   1. copy all existing closers and flushers,
+	   2. change the writer immediately
+	   3. fire a goroutine which flushes and closes the old writers,
+	       no locks required there because they are not used for concurrent writing
+	       anymore. Errors there are ignored (we could collect them with sync errgroup
+	       and wait for them before exit this Reset method, but we don't).
+	*/
 
-			ac.Flushers = ac.Flushers[0:0]
-			ac.Closers = ac.Closers[0:0]
-
-			go func(flushers []Flusher, closers []io.Closer) {
-				for _, flusher := range flushers {
-					flusher.Flush()
-				}
-				for _, closer := range closers {
-					closer.Close()
-				}
-			}(flushers, closers)
-		}
-
-		ac.BufferTruncaters = ac.BufferTruncaters[0:0]
-		ac.FileTruncaters = ac.FileTruncaters[0:0]
-	} else {
-		if ac.Writer != nil { // prepend if one exists.
+	if !reset {
+		// prepend if one exists.
+		ac.mu.Lock()
+		if ac.Writer != nil {
 			writers = append([]io.Writer{ac.Writer}, writers...)
 		}
+		ac.mu.Unlock()
 	}
 
 	switch len(writers) {
 	case 0:
 		return
 	case 1:
+		ac.mu.Lock()
 		ac.Writer = writers[0]
+		ac.mu.Unlock()
 	default:
-		ac.Writer = io.MultiWriter(writers...)
+		multi := io.MultiWriter(writers...)
+		ac.mu.Lock()
+		ac.Writer = multi
+		ac.mu.Unlock()
 	}
 
+	// NO need to check for a "hadWriter",
+	// because it will always have a previous writer
+	// on serve-time (the spot we care about performance),
+	// so if it set by New, on build-time, we don't rly care about some read locks slowdown.
+	ac.mu.RLock()
+	n := len(ac.Flushers)
+	ac.mu.RUnlock()
+
+	flushers := make([]Flusher, n)
+	if n > 0 {
+		ac.mu.Lock()
+		copy(flushers, ac.Flushers)
+		ac.mu.Unlock()
+	}
+
+	ac.mu.RLock()
+	n = len(ac.Closers)
+	ac.mu.RUnlock()
+
+	closers := make([]io.Closer, n)
+	if n > 0 {
+		ac.mu.Lock()
+		copy(closers, ac.Closers)
+		ac.mu.Unlock()
+	}
+
+	if reset {
+		// Reset previous flushers and closers,
+		// so any middle request can't flush to the old ones.
+		// Note that, because we don't lock the whole operation,
+		// there is a chance of Flush while we are doing this,
+		// not by the middleware (unless panic, but again, the data are written
+		// to the new writer, they are not lost, just not flushed immediately),
+		// an outsider may call it, and if it does
+		// then it is its responsibility to lock between manual Flush calls and
+		// SetOutput ones. This is done to be able
+		// to serve requests fast even on Async == false
+		// while SetOutput is called at serve-time, if we didn't care about it
+		// we could lock the whole operation which would make the
+		// log writers to wait and be done with this.
+		ac.mu.Lock()
+		ac.Flushers = ac.Flushers[0:0]
+		ac.Closers = ac.Closers[0:0]
+		ac.BufferTruncaters = ac.BufferTruncaters[0:0]
+		ac.FileTruncaters = ac.FileTruncaters[0:0]
+		ac.mu.Unlock()
+	}
+
+	// Store the new flushers, closers and truncaters...
 	for _, w := range writers {
 		if flusher, ok := w.(Flusher); ok {
+			ac.mu.Lock()
 			ac.Flushers = append(ac.Flushers, flusher)
+			ac.mu.Unlock()
 		}
 
 		if closer, ok := w.(io.Closer); ok {
+			ac.mu.Lock()
 			ac.Closers = append(ac.Closers, closer)
+			ac.mu.Unlock()
 		}
 
 		if truncater, ok := w.(BufferTruncater); ok {
+			ac.mu.Lock()
 			ac.BufferTruncaters = append(ac.BufferTruncaters, truncater)
+			ac.mu.Unlock()
 		}
 
 		if truncater, ok := w.(FileTruncater); ok {
+			ac.mu.Lock()
 			ac.FileTruncaters = append(ac.FileTruncaters, truncater)
+			ac.mu.Unlock()
 		}
 	}
+
+	// And finally, wait before exit this method
+	// until previous writer's closers and flush finish.
+	for _, flusher := range flushers {
+		if flusher != nil {
+			flusher.Flush()
+		}
+	}
+	for _, closer := range closers {
+		if closer != nil {
+			closer.Close()
+		}
+
+	}
 }
 
 // Close terminates any broker listeners,
diff --git a/middleware/accesslog/accesslog_test.go b/middleware/accesslog/accesslog_test.go
index c4d59fd1..d46e1e7f 100644
--- a/middleware/accesslog/accesslog_test.go
+++ b/middleware/accesslog/accesslog_test.go
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func TestAccessLogBroker(t *testing.T) {
 
 	wg := new(sync.WaitGroup)
 	n := 4
-	wg.Add(4)
+	wg.Add(n)
 	go func() {
 		i := 0
 		ln := broker.NewListener()
@@ -203,6 +203,116 @@ func TestAccessLogBlank(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+type slowClose struct{ *bytes.Buffer }
+
+func (c *slowClose) Close() error {
+	time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func TestAccessLogSetOutput(t *testing.T) {
+	var (
+		w1 = &bytes.Buffer{}
+		w2 = &bytes.Buffer{}
+		w3 = &slowClose{&bytes.Buffer{}}
+		w4 = &bytes.Buffer{}
+	)
+
+	ac := New(w1)
+	ac.Clock = TClock(time.Time{})
+
+	n := 40
+	expected := strings.Repeat("0001-01-01 00:00:00|1s|200|GET|/|127.0.0.1|0 B|0 B||\n", n)
+
+	printLog := func() {
+		err := ac.Print(
+			nil,
+			time.Second,
+			defaultTimeFormat,
+			200,
+			"GET",
+			"/",
+			"127.0.0.1",
+			"",
+			"",
+			0,
+			0,
+			nil,
+			nil,
+			nil,
+		)
+
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	testSetOutput := func(name string, w io.Writer, withSlowClose bool) {
+		wg := new(sync.WaitGroup)
+		wg.Add(n / 4)
+		for i := 0; i < n/4; i++ {
+			go func(i int) {
+				defer wg.Done()
+
+				if i%2 == 0 {
+					time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+				}
+
+				switch i {
+				case 5:
+					if w == nil {
+						break
+					}
+
+					now := time.Now()
+					ac.SetOutput(w)
+					if withSlowClose {
+						end := time.Since(now)
+						if end < time.Second {
+							panic(fmt.Sprintf("[%s] [%d]: SetOutput should wait for previous Close. Expected to return a bit after %s but %s", name, i, time.Second, end))
+						}
+					}
+				}
+
+				printLog()
+			}(i)
+		}
+
+		// wait to finish.
+		wg.Wait()
+	}
+
+	go testSetOutput("w1", nil, false) // write at least one line and then
+	time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond) // concurrently
+	testSetOutput("w2", w2, false)     // change the writer
+	testSetOutput("w3", w3, false)
+	testSetOutput("w4", w4, true)
+
+	gotAll := w1.String() + w2.String() + w3.String() + w4.String()
+
+	// test if all content written and we have no loses.
+	if expected != gotAll {
+		t.Fatalf("expected total written result to be:\n'%s'\n\nbut got:\n'%s'", expected, gotAll)
+	}
+
+	// now, check if all have contents, they should because we wait between them,
+	// contents spread.
+	checkLines := func(name, s string, minimumLines int) {
+		if got := strings.Count(s, "\n"); got < minimumLines {
+			t.Logf("[%s] expected minimum lines of: %d but got %d", name, minimumLines, got)
+		}
+	}
+
+	checkLines("w1", w1.String(), 1)
+	checkLines("w2", w2.String(), 5)
+	checkLines("w3", w3.String(), 5)
+	checkLines("w4", w4.String(), 5)
+
+	if err := ac.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("On close: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 type noOpFormatter struct{}
 
 func (*noOpFormatter) SetOutput(io.Writer) {}