Can anyone answer this?

[Old Katz]

I was looking at another forum where the writer was asking the following question and he mentions the MXT:

Just a quick question for all OMEGA 8000 owners. Does this unit have built into it a threshold setting? Let me explain what I mean. My MD hunting buddies and I go relic hunting in CW era fields looking for relics that are deep CW finds, 3 of them have Whites units and one has a Nautilus. While the Nautilus doesn't do this, the WHITES detectors will let them know that they have something deep in the ground by giving them an audio low growl type of sound while the visual screen does not register whatever it is that is in the ground (means it is SOMETHING deep) Nothing usually (but sometimes) will let them know via VDI or anything visual on the screen that the detector "thinks" it is, but when headphones are on, you can "HEAR" something that the detector is trying to decode and let you know that there is something good in the ground, deep, with a low pitched growl.

Ok, I wasn't aware of this. I've never heard it on my MXT. Can any of you Guru's enlighten me? Maybe this applies only to certain White machines.
Thanks
Katz

 

[srf2112]

I assume he's talking about the low tones in relic mode. I haven't used relic mode much so I'm not completely sure what he's refering to. The way the author phrases it sounds like something altogether different but I think that's what he's trying to describe. My best interpretation.
HH
Scott

 

[Old Katz]

Hummmm. Maybe thats the case. I use relic mode and there are two tones.
Katz

 

[Horsesoldier]

If you run in all metal mode or with very little discrimination (around 1 or 2) you sometimes will hear an audio signal that is too deep for the VDI to identify. In other words, you may get a faint signal that will cause the threshold to drop out or give you an audio response and the VDI will read "0" or may not register at all. This was one of the tricks to the old 6000 DiPro. You would get an audio response and the needle wouldn't move. That usually meant it was a deep target. Hope this helps.

 

[BarberBill]

It's my understanding that basically, any machine that has a threshold hum will give a slight audible response to a target too deep to give a VDI or solid beep, and the reason one should adjust an adjustable threshold to just audible so as to hear very minor hits. One of the reasons that headphones are helpful on "iffy" targets.
BB

 

[Davy Jones Locker]

You got it ever hear a cat give a low growl real low lower than a dogs you got it.

 

[Flintstone]

Hi All, I hunt with the MXT most of the time. If they were using the MXT they had it in prospect mode, when a deep target is hit, to deep for vdi reading it will make a gaunt. This is what he is talking about if it is a MXT or GMT. Prospect mode is the deep mode when put in hyper stat at +1-2-or 3.

 

[kraykepler]

In relic mode, it's just a slight tone rise, not really a "grunt". It's a great thing to go with in a well worked out area, when you've dug everything else.

 

[ohio fred]

Any mode on mxt when you have the threshold just turned up a little in relic and coin mode when the threshold depending on where you have your discrimination set usually anything discriminated out the threshold blanks out no noise quite for a second.When it gos over something deep while you will hear the threshold just a little when it rises slightly or get just a little louder it has gone over a object to deep to register.When i hunt with mxt often listen for the slight increase in threshold just enough to hear it rise very fast like if you went over a speed bump. Kind of like shhhhh^ shhhh no blank just a peak very fast.Go back and go over that are and find the peak by all metal or pinpoint.When you find it and walk around the spot trying to get a better signal when you pinpoint should be able to get a depth reading stomp the area with foot to try and cause the item to break loose a little and see if you can get a reading or turn up power to see if for a second you cant get a reading or if in a good are just pinpoint and dig.You will find a lot of deep items when you learn to listen for the threshold to peak as your hunting.Also the prospecting mode is the deepest on mxt but also the most nosiest a lot of item can be found using that mode if you can put up with noise.Hope this helped some