Any opinions on the GT's All-Metal mode?

[cjc]

Bought this machine to use in all-metal and find that the sound is ...well--a dog's breakfast. With my old Sov. the carry-overs allowed me to tell iron targets but it seems evey signal has that sound (noisy ends) with the GT. Anyone finding some value in this big change? The pinpoint sound great!
CJC

 

[Dan R.]

Hi CJC

I only have owned the GT Sov so don't know what you mean by dogs breakfast.

The sound I get with that threshold give me at least the difference between stuff below nickel grade and stuff above nickel grade as the coil passes over targets of those metals.

For instance anything above nickel gets a threshold tone and also the signal tone gives off a meeow ( like cats cry without the m in meeow.) for metals of a type lower then nickel a backwards eeow like owee . I can get this different sound even while pinpointing . On real shallow targets is very loud and noticeable for targets of different ranges as mentioned. For targets much deeper even if only a threshold sound change is made and no postive signal tone the sound is there in the threshold but a lot quieter. I can tell the differences as mentioned just with a slight treshold change as it contains the variance as mentioned.On a dime for instance the meeeow comes closer to sounding like meow very short on a nickel the sound will sound like oh!ee kind of short if swinging a little faster then a real slow swing , but on the slow swing its the longer eeeow or ow! ee. I have a little id mode in all metal mode.

Don't have experience with other sovs am happy with just learning this one without making comparisons.

HH

Dan R.

 

[cjc]

A good observation you make that the kind of sound relates to the signal range. The old Sov' is more like the pinpoint of the GT. Guess it all depends on what you're used to, but I have always favoured White's type all metal audio and even the "wide" overtone hum of hte Minelabs was a bit of a shock. the X2 is astounding in all metal and I was hoping the the GT would be the same but better.
CJC

 

[cjc]

Put in a few hours with the GT in fresh water with a WOT and the Tornoado. Definately nice on the small stuff. Hard to get used to those wide, segmented all-metal responses though, they seem to be very hard to hear at depth. Seems harder to tell the nails and b-pins from good signals in all-metal, that is if you are trying to go beyond the disc range. With the X2 there is a carry-over (up and down) on some iron and steel. All in all, a very impressive tracking all metal mode, besides sounding like hell on the shallow ones. good thing there ar'nt any left where I hunt.
CJC