AT Gold

[David-Edmonton]

For me the at gold. I have owned both detectors and am currently using the at gold as one of my detectors.

Why? It will do almost everything the at pro will do and more. All you lose is the notch feature....and standard mode which no one uses anyways. Salt water beaches?? havent tried the gold there yet but I was not that impressed with at pro on salt beach..I have another detector for that purpose.

The gold comes stock with the 5x8 coil which is awesome (getting in tight areas, finding stuff next to iron and for pinpointing) and if you run it in all metal you will get the same depth if not better than the at pro with larger stock coil. Even better depth if you bump up the threshold.

So for me the gold works better....I stilll have the tone roll audio and iron audio plus a threshold and a ground balance window with the ability to find small gold better. I have a unit that I dont have to swap coils out...I get fantastic depth and it works great for working in iron infested trashy areas. I do lose some sweep coverage but thats a tradeoff that works for me.

With the gold I cant selectively take out notches but I rarely did anyway. It has nice preset features and with the ability to set tone ID's and use the vdi at a glance. I tend to dig most all good signals as I dont want to miss jewelery and the tone roll and iron audio help weed out the bad ones.

For water hunting you will want the smaller coil...trust me. It makes life alot easier when you go for it with your scoop. The small difference in frequencies isnt much and I have not noticed any difference really.

The at pro in my opinion would be an easier unit to start with as you could use standard mode at first....although you will move past it quick and never use it again. And the display showing coin ranges is helpful to a new detectorist as well.

Once you gain experience the gold has more options to aid you in the field but could be daunting for a new detector user.

My opinions only...hope this helps.

Dave in Oregon

I do appreciate your help there Dave - and everyone else that has helped me throughout the last few weeks. It makes pretty good sense on what you just said here, Dave. I, personally, would like to avoid making any mistakes on purchasing a basic metal detector. I was initally looking at the DeepTech Vista Gold but eventually looked away as knobs just don't appeal to me and also it seems to be hard to locate a seller without huge shipping fees. I don't even know what sort of nightmare on warranty I could be facing if I took that route. I then looked into the FIsher F75 Ltd which eventually lead to the AT Gold. This past week I have been going back and forth between the AT Pro and AT Gold mainly because of the notching feature but I too feel that I may just have some fun with it at first but eventually stop using it. I can always just keep a mental note of certain VIDs that I don't plan on digging (if I wish to cherry pick on days that I have limited time to MD). I also see no point in the AT Pro standard mode. Why would you want two close by items to bing as one?

I live in Canada. The coins here from 2000 and above contain steel and would react differently on the AT Pro shown coin ranges. It pretty much makes that section of the display.useless from my understanding. I don't know how frequent people up here find American currency - being further north than other places closer to the border.

The other thing is, I have already ordered the Garrett Edge Digger and a 5x8 coil cover (slip just came in for me to pick it up at the post office tomorrow at 1pm). I placed an order for the ProPointer/Camo Pouch combo. I couldn't pass up on that deal. I am almost set for MD'ing once the snow melts here -all I need to do is wait for the ProPointer to arrive (by end of this week) and then make my way to a local store and grab that AT Gold if that is what I am going to finally decide on. Whatever I pick is what I would be sticking with up until Garrett puts something else on the market. Perhaps they would give the option of combinding all features of the AT Pro and AT Gold into one? Unlikely though. I don't really know why they didn't put the notching feature into the AT Gold in the first place. Frequency shouldn't really matter - if so, then why not give the option to switch that frequency?

 

[hihosilver]

For me the at gold. I have owned both detectors and am currently using the at gold as one of my detectors.

Why? It will do almost everything the at pro will do and more. All you lose is the notch feature....and standard mode which no one uses anyways. Salt water beaches?? havent tried the gold there yet but I was not that impressed with at pro on salt beach..I have another detector for that purpose.

The gold comes stock with the 5x8 coil which is awesome (getting in tight areas, finding stuff next to iron and for pinpointing) and if you run it in all metal you will get the same depth if not better than the at pro with larger stock coil. Even better depth if you bump up the threshold.

So for me the gold works better....I stilll have the tone roll audio and iron audio plus a threshold and a ground balance window with the ability to find small gold better. I have a unit that I dont have to swap coils out...I get fantastic depth and it works great for working in iron infested trashy areas. I do lose some sweep coverage but thats a tradeoff that works for me.

With the gold I cant selectively take out notches but I rarely did anyway. It has nice preset features and with the ability to set tone ID's and use the vdi at a glance. I tend to dig most all good signals as I dont want to miss jewelery and the tone roll and iron audio help weed out the bad ones.

For water hunting you will want the smaller coil...trust me. It makes life alot easier when you go for it with your scoop. The small difference in frequencies isnt much and I have not noticed any difference really.

The at pro in my opinion would be an easier unit to start with as you could use standard mode at first....although you will move past it quick and never use it again. And the display showing coin ranges is helpful to a new detectorist as well.

Once you gain experience the gold has more options to aid you in the field but could be daunting for a new detector user.

My opinions only...hope this helps.

Dave in Oregon

I do appreciate your help there Dave - and everyone else that has helped me throughout the last few weeks. It makes pretty good sense on what you just said here, Dave. I, personally, would like to avoid making any mistakes on purchasing a basic metal detector. I was initally looking at the DeepTech Vista Gold but eventually looked away as knobs just don't appeal to me and also it seems to be hard to locate a seller without huge shipping fees. I don't even know what sort of nightmare on warranty I could be facing if I took that route. I then looked into the FIsher F75 Ltd which eventually lead to the AT Gold. This past week I have been going back and forth between the AT Pro and AT Gold mainly because of the notching feature but I too feel that I may just have some fun with it at first but eventually stop using it. I can always just keep a mental note of certain VIDs that I don't plan on digging (if I wish to cherry pick on days that I have limited time to MD). I also see no point in the AT Pro standard mode. Why would you want two close by items to bing as one?

I live in Canada. The coins here from 2000 and above contain steel and would react differently on the AT Pro shown coin ranges. It pretty much makes that section of the display.useless from my understanding. I don't know how frequent people up here find American currency - being further north than other places closer to the border.

The other thing is, I have already ordered the Garrett Edge Digger and a 5x8 coil cover (slip just came in for me to pick it up at the post office tomorrow at 1pm). I placed an order for the ProPointer/Camo Pouch combo. I couldn't pass up on that deal. I am almost set for MD'ing once the snow melts here -all I need to do is wait for the ProPointer to arrive (by end of this week) and then make my way to a local store and grab that AT Gold if that is what I am going to finally decide on. Whatever I pick is what I would be sticking with up until Garrett puts something else on the market. Perhaps they would give the option of combinding all features of the AT Pro and AT Gold into one? Unlikely though. I don't really know why they didn't put the notching feature into the AT Gold in the first place. Frequency shouldn't really matter - if so, then why not give the option to switch that frequency?

This is a great thread. I too have been thinking about which detector to buy and keep going back and forth between the AT's and the F5, and now pretty set on the AT's. Trying to decide between the the AT Pro and the AT Gold now. I read on another thread that about some rumblings that Garrett would be coming out with another AT series machine which would be a step up from what is out now. Don't know how true the rumor is, but it would be great if Garrett released an AT that combined ALL the features of the Pro and the Gold into one machine. If not, I think I will get the AT Gold. I agree that the "standard mode" on the Pro is just a learning step and once one has learned the Pro mode, one would not need or use the standard mode. From what I've read and seen on vids, the "Pro Zero" mode on the AT Pro is the same as the "Disc 1" mode on the ATG. With tones and Visual TID, I don't think I would ever do much notching, so as to not miss gold (by notching out alum). I would notch out zinc, but again, once I knew what they sounded like and what their VID was, I would not really need or use the notching feature. In my opinion, the ability to do custom notching set ups is the only real "useful" feature the Pro has that the Gold does not have. Notching aside, it appears to me that all of the advantages between the two machines would go toward the ATG. It has a true all metal search mode, which is an entirely different mode than "Pro Zero" or Pro Custom w/nothing notched out. All metal with a threshold adjustment is just a different way to hunt and I like this option alot. The fact that Garrett has created a way to discriminate iron with the "iron audio" feature, while using the "true all metal mode" is UNIQUE to this detector, and I think it is a game changer for using the all metal mode.

Finally, some forum members who own both have posted in other threads that they feel the ATG runs just a little deeper, and abit stabler, even in the disc modes. I get the sense from reading these posts that the ATG, being released after the ATP, is the more finely "tuned" of the two. Perhaps thats an assumption on my part as I don't own either of them and am only going on what I have read from users that do. Posters who own the ATG seem to be finding deep silver and the slightly higher frequency has not decreased sensitivity to silver. Yet, it seems that the higher frequency DOES make the ATG more sensitive to gold. Again, just from what I have read and watched, the ATG seems to be a little more detector than the ATP.

Would love to hear more from those who have owned or used both...

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi everyone, I bought an AT GOLD last early summer, I detect 98 percent in water waist deep (freshwater lakes and river beaches). I find by running it in all metal with iron audio on, gb @ about 12ish, threshold about 8 to 10 gives me great depth. I dug a ring last summer that was 10k wire band with the main stone missing in it and 4 diamonds still intact. The ring was a good 12 inches plus down in the sand. The tone that it gave was a very light high pitch roll that mixed in with the threshold tone. I got close to 3 ounces of jewelry gold and a couple of ounces of jewelry silver. It seems I find alot that others miss. With the deep tones there was never a vdi number, only tone. There were quite a few other pieces of jewelry and coins I found deep with the light rolling tone. I love my AT GOLD>

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Jon in Ontario near Smiths Falls

 

[upnorth]

I did a lot of whinning and moaning late last winter after getting my AT and air testing inside. Then I got out on the farm fields and it woke me up to its real capabilities. It has become my go to machine because of its versatility, and I can't put it down.