Thank you Bigscoop for the tip. I"m going to give that a try... I personally don't like hearing any threshholds. Except when using my Etrac I use a very low threshold. I just bought a used Excalibar 1000 and been running it with the switch just turned on with no threshhold in pinpoint. So what you're saying is to turn the threshold all the way up until you don't hear it? (Silent mode?) Along with running it in disc mode..I understand the sensitivity setting... I just want to make sure I understood the video? I was experimenting with a new beach Hunter ID with no threshold,sensitivity maxed out in all metal and was getting good results. Of course having the red yellow green lights helped on what to dig. I bought the Excal hoping for the deeper smaller gold and what have you.... Thanks again my friend. I hope to try it this weekend.
Thank you my friend.....Put your machine in discrimination mode. When you first turn your machine on slowly turn the dial up until you hear the threshold and then back it off until the threshold can no longer be heard. Now turn your machine volume all the way up, set your sensitivity to about half, discrimination at 1. ( You can adjust the sensitivity once you're actually hunting to suit the conditions.) Also, the better the headphones the better the results as some returns can be extremely faint and quick. Dig any tone that repeats, regardless how faint or deep it might be.
Yes, the higher volume is going to allow shallow targets to return extremely loud but this is the trade off suffered in order to hear those very deep and/or faint returns.
Hi bigscoop, I already have tinnitus from loud noises so turning the volume hurts my ears. Any suggestions?