Silencer Testing

[Iffy Signals]

I have read allot in the forum and watched plenty of videos on the silencer settings but actually did some tests while hunting over the weekend. A couple of good targets that sounded like crap on silencer 1 but sounded great on -1. One was a buckle and the other a musket ball. Left it on -1 for the rest of the hunt and found many i would have walked over with a setting of 1... needless to say i dug way more iron that day than normal. Kinda rough and will have to play with it depending on the site. Have to go back to old sites now and recheck with -1. Anyone notice this as well?

Thanks

 

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[Jeff H]

That's the best kind of testing Iffy. I do that a lot over targets but haven't really played with Silencer. I set it at -1. Just curious, did the buckle have an iron tongue?

 

[Iffy Signals]

Sure did. Prob why silencer 1 was blocking most of it out. Musket ball was also close to some iron nails.

 

[dirtlooter]

interesting for sure, it is amazing as to how a small adjustment can make such a difference. I think that out of ignorance, many new to the deus can customize it into a lesser machine if not careful. great observation

 

[Iffy Signals]

interesting for sure, it is amazing as to how a small adjustment can make such a difference. I think that out of ignorance, many new to the deus can customize it into a lesser machine if not careful. great observation

I agree i was hunting at a level 1 for less iron. The whole time i was masking allot of treasure. At least my summer weekends will be busy hitting all the spots i hunted at level 1.

 

[vferrari]

I only use silencer "on" settings for iron/bottlecap check type programs. Silencer is always off (-1) on my general search or thick iron programs for the very reasons you have cited, broken target signals and masking in the presence of iron. I think XP perhaps recognized the down side of silencer when working in thick iron situations where high reactivity settings are needed as starting with ver 5.X software, they turned offsilencer by default for reactivity settings 2.5 and higher. Now you know why that musket ball sounded like crap at 2 and great at 2.5 per your other thread.

 

[secondstar]

I only use silencer "on" settings for iron/bottlecap check type programs. Silencer is always off (-1) on my general search or thick iron programs for the very reasons you have cited, broken target signals and masking in the presence of iron. I think XP perhaps recognized the down side of silencer when working in thick iron situations where high reactivity settings are needed as starting with ver 5.X software, they turned of silencer by default for reactivity settings 2.5 and higher. Now you know why that musket ball sounded like crap at 2 and great at 2.5 per your other thread.

Quick question vferrari; do you have a silencer setting that you feel works best for iron check?

 

[vferrari]

I rarely use it, frankly, so haven't tried to optimize it, but 2 or 3 should be sufficient.