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Anyone care to help a Sovereign newbie with land settings for coins?
- Thread starter silverman
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this all depends on your soil, is it meneralized or not , does it have hot rocks, but try this Disq at nothing, notch at nothing put it in threshold Iron mask on , turn your sensitivity just up from the 3:00 position and set your threshold not loud not to soft, , and give it a try , what would really benifit you is to bury a dime at 6.5" and pracktice on it turning up and down the sens and using fast and slow swing speed this will give yu an Idea of how hot you can set it of your ground is really badd, use the fixed all metal it will cut thru it like its not thear and hit on good targets but mind you you will dig a few junks like nails ect, but that only in really badd ground , and if you are in badd ground try repeated sweeps of a null and it may tune it in and shorten your sweep thas my advice to pinpont you may need to use pinpont as it gets a bit tricky in disq to pinpont sometimes
Being you are new to the Sovereign you want to make the learning curve easy as possible and once you understand it a bit more you can get into the setting to best match your hunting.
Volume at max on the Sovereign and adjust the headphones to a comfortable volume. Disc all the way counter clockwise, same as with the notch. Sensitivity all the way counter clockwise until it clicks as this is auto sensitivity where Minelab recommends to start with as it will run smoother and easier to learn. You can run iron mask on or off to begin with, but once you know it run it on all the time as it may false a little more, but you will hear coins closer to trash, but off it will run smoother. I always run disc as to me it is deeper and so much easier to use for coins, but a relic hunter may want to run in all metal. Silent search has it purpose, but I find running with a threshold in the old parks will get you deeper targets plus you can tell if you are going too fast with the swing of the coil. Freq 2 seems to work the best for me and switching to freq 1 is hunting close to another Sovereign or electrical interference. I leave the pinpoint/trac/lock switch in pinpoint all the time as this is only activated when you switch the other switch to all metal on the GT. Now all you have to do is swing the coil slower then most detectors and listen to all the info it is telling you and decide which ones to dig and which one to walk over. Take a little patience and time, but when you get to know your Sovereign you will find it a very easy detector to use and with the sensitivity in manual and adjusted right (to me it is in the 10-11 o'clock position) you will see why so many of us swear by the Sovereigns as it make some worked out area come alive.
One more thing I recommend it going to some easy area first where a lot of new coins can be to get used to the tones and which signals are good and which are bad, it is good practice.
Rick
Volume at max on the Sovereign and adjust the headphones to a comfortable volume. Disc all the way counter clockwise, same as with the notch. Sensitivity all the way counter clockwise until it clicks as this is auto sensitivity where Minelab recommends to start with as it will run smoother and easier to learn. You can run iron mask on or off to begin with, but once you know it run it on all the time as it may false a little more, but you will hear coins closer to trash, but off it will run smoother. I always run disc as to me it is deeper and so much easier to use for coins, but a relic hunter may want to run in all metal. Silent search has it purpose, but I find running with a threshold in the old parks will get you deeper targets plus you can tell if you are going too fast with the swing of the coil. Freq 2 seems to work the best for me and switching to freq 1 is hunting close to another Sovereign or electrical interference. I leave the pinpoint/trac/lock switch in pinpoint all the time as this is only activated when you switch the other switch to all metal on the GT. Now all you have to do is swing the coil slower then most detectors and listen to all the info it is telling you and decide which ones to dig and which one to walk over. Take a little patience and time, but when you get to know your Sovereign you will find it a very easy detector to use and with the sensitivity in manual and adjusted right (to me it is in the 10-11 o'clock position) you will see why so many of us swear by the Sovereigns as it make some worked out area come alive.
One more thing I recommend it going to some easy area first where a lot of new coins can be to get used to the tones and which signals are good and which are bad, it is good practice.
Rick
Birdseed
Member
Silverman
Gary's book is pretty much "spot-on"
I had great success here in Tasmania to start with using:
Volume 3 O'clock
Disc Mark 3 on the dial about 7 O'clock
Iron Mask On - center position
Threshold switch up
Sensitivity Auto
Notch Fully Anticlockwise
Threshold knob Just a stable buzz
Noise cancel Whichever sounds more stable (usually operate in band 2 for no particular reason)
As you gain experience you will change setting a little at a time but only only ever one setting at a time till you know what you are doing
Soon you will live up to your name "Silverman"
Pete downunder
Gary's book is pretty much "spot-on"
I had great success here in Tasmania to start with using:
Volume 3 O'clock
Disc Mark 3 on the dial about 7 O'clock
Iron Mask On - center position
Threshold switch up
Sensitivity Auto
Notch Fully Anticlockwise
Threshold knob Just a stable buzz
Noise cancel Whichever sounds more stable (usually operate in band 2 for no particular reason)
As you gain experience you will change setting a little at a time but only only ever one setting at a time till you know what you are doing
Soon you will live up to your name "Silverman"
Pete downunder
Darkflamedesign
New member
This is my tried and true setting .... Regardless of soil you encounter.
Do this first ... Set all metal
"bob" coil up and down to ground balance .
Most hunters don't gb before hunting , big mistake
In all metal , detector will use it's builtin digital filters to track and compensate for your soil.
I am very experienced with the gt and do not use anything else when I hunt.
My super disc. Mode :
KEY ! (place coil on ground / clear of metal after gb)
Set disc. Zero
Notch zero
Volume full (3/4)
Note : audio volume actually diminishes when set at max
Iron mask on (disc. Mode )
Set fix
Set noise 2
Here is the magic setting : first place threshold as usual , get slight hum
Then "switch" to SILENT (to kill hum) NOW set a slight hum while still in silent
This is a more stable and productive mode for me when I work the beach but have used on land with a smaller coil such as a sun ray s-5
I write settings program guides for this machine . For the owners of the gt.
Look for my name and guides on eBay . Read the feedback, I know this machine well.
I created even more settings for this great machine.
eBay Id : darkflamedesign
" beach hunting secrets for the sovereign gt and secret settings for the sovereign gt "
Happy hunting
Do this first ... Set all metal
"bob" coil up and down to ground balance .
Most hunters don't gb before hunting , big mistake
In all metal , detector will use it's builtin digital filters to track and compensate for your soil.
I am very experienced with the gt and do not use anything else when I hunt.
My super disc. Mode :
KEY ! (place coil on ground / clear of metal after gb)
Set disc. Zero
Notch zero
Volume full (3/4)
Note : audio volume actually diminishes when set at max
Iron mask on (disc. Mode )
Set fix
Set noise 2
Here is the magic setting : first place threshold as usual , get slight hum
Then "switch" to SILENT (to kill hum) NOW set a slight hum while still in silent
This is a more stable and productive mode for me when I work the beach but have used on land with a smaller coil such as a sun ray s-5
I write settings program guides for this machine . For the owners of the gt.
Look for my name and guides on eBay . Read the feedback, I know this machine well.
I created even more settings for this great machine.
eBay Id : darkflamedesign
" beach hunting secrets for the sovereign gt and secret settings for the sovereign gt "
Happy hunting