I recently bought the compadre with the 8" coil. I have read a great deal about this machine, and I realize it is only a one tone machine, but that the tonal quality will change which will give an idea of depth, or help with target discrimination. I have been using a set of headphones that I bought at a garage sale a couple of years ago, and I have noticed some tonal differences like pennies and pull tabs come across loud and clear to the point where they practically blow my ear off. Today I noticed this whisper of tones very faint, and very light. It was almost like an echo. I could barely hear it, so I turned up the volume on the phones, and I could still barely hear it. I am wondering if my headphones are just not equipped to pick up this tone? Have others with this machine heard very quiet tones? I have only had this machine for a couple of weeks, and have no complaints, but have noticed that I have dug a large quantity of pennies and pull tabs, due to the fact that they come across so loud, and I realize this comes with the territory, but now I am wondering if I have missed a bunch of targets because I have not been hearing these very faint tones. Any input would be greatly appreciated. If it is the phones, what should I be looking at purchasing?
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Compadre Tone Question
- Thread starter jerrym663
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MarkCZ
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Its not the tone that is different its the quality of the tone and the strength (intensity) of the tone.
Soft and faint your hearing could be from what is called "Modulated Audio" most or at lest a good number of detectors have it these days. Modulated audio just means that the same target at a greater depth will sound deeper and more far away (soft and faint)
anther cause for this is a tiny target much smaller than normal even close to the coil can sometimes ring in "soft and faint".
The other tone changes you are talking about is the quality of the tone, foil, and many very odd shaped target give off more of a crap quality response where as the better quality tone is the better targets like coins or gold or silver rings.
Hope that helps.
Mark
Soft and faint your hearing could be from what is called "Modulated Audio" most or at lest a good number of detectors have it these days. Modulated audio just means that the same target at a greater depth will sound deeper and more far away (soft and faint)
anther cause for this is a tiny target much smaller than normal even close to the coil can sometimes ring in "soft and faint".
The other tone changes you are talking about is the quality of the tone, foil, and many very odd shaped target give off more of a crap quality response where as the better quality tone is the better targets like coins or gold or silver rings.
Hope that helps.
Mark
There is nothing wrong with your detector or headphones.. That faint signal is telling you something is down their deeper than them loud signals. Dig it up . It will be deeper. Sometimes very tiny gold close to the serface will also gove a soft signal. So,, your hearing is good... KEN
There is nothing wrong with your detector or headphones.. That faint signal is telling you something is down their deeper than them loud signals. Dig it up . It will be deeper. Sometimes very tiny gold close to the surface will also give a soft signal. So,, your hearing is good... KEN