3rd hunt with E-Trac nails drove me nuts!

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Also try lowering your THRESHOLD PITCH to factory 15 or 20 so all coins won't be as high a pitch sound especially the real high conductors so now you can possiably hear a difference in the pitch of the sound from a clad to a silver to iron as they each will sound a bit different. If you set Threshold Pitch range up to where you have it at (28-29) all the targets sound way more sceetchy and therange of sound is compressed to the upper end. I even went lower for my range of hearing like 5 on down to 1 on the threshold pitch scale and it made a BIG difference in my being able to distinguish the difference in the sounds of all the different targets I encounter. It spreads the sound range out more on the targets to me so they weren't all so high pitched screetchy to my ears which made it hurt after a while.

 

[stasys]

Try another Pro coil, or other, or go to older Explorer, Etracs more in tune with Iron, and for experienced users its not bad.

 

[Damar2003]

I use the wide open quick mask all the time on those iffy signals. Saves alot of time not digging the junk, but if it is still jumpy in quick mask and I still get some good numbers along with cursor position I will dig it and have found some silver doing that.

 

[Johnnyanglo]

Technically Vol Gain has little effect on iron falsing. It neither makes the detector less or more sensitive to targets. However, running lower Vol Gain will keep the audio cleaner, that is, the audio can be too extreme making the separation between weak and strong targets indiscernable.

If iron falsing is occurring turn down the +3 Auto Sens until it disappears, perhaps -2 Auto. You aren't going to lose much depth since iron spreads out the EM signal and does a tremendous job of decreasing depth on its own right. So, go ahead and reduce the sensitivity.

Overpowering the nail head and nail tip with circulating eddies will give those high chirps that sound somewhat like non-ferrous coins. Normally an iron nail is all reactive signal and is easily disc'd out by detectors. But when they are bent or have sharp edges the resistive signal can impersonate the non-ferrous target.

Also, turn Trash Density to High - it will help lock on the good accepted signal letting it through and block out the less consistent signals.