Confused About The Cortes

[reddirtfisher]

I have been reading some of the posts concerning the Cortes and I have a question. The new Tesoro catalog says, " In addition to the expansive information provided by the VDI, the Cortes boasts nine different tones for superior audio identification". So,..does this mean that there is a different tone for each of the nine segments that are on the screen? Do you hear them in the disc mode or the sum mode?

 

[Habanero]

Sum mode only, otherwise it's the same single tone. Sum mode was supposed to be a kind of target check for iffy targets but after trying to use it I was just more confused. If I threw a quarter on the ground then sum mode would give me constant high tones and I assume as you check other targets lower on the discrimination scale that the tone would gradually go lower according to what you had the coil over. I never really used it much as it really did not have much bearing on my choice to recover a target or not. Maybe I was doing it wrong but that's my take on it.

 

[daddyflea]

Sum mode only, otherwise it's the same single tone. Sum mode was supposed to be a kind of target check for iffy targets but after trying to use it I was just more confused. If I threw a quarter on the ground then sum mode would give me constant high tones and I assume as you check other targets lower on the discrimination scale that the tone would gradually go lower according to what you had the coil over. I never really used it much as it really did not have much bearing on my choice to recover a target or not. Maybe I was doing it wrong but that's my take on it.

Just what he said. Next to useless in Sum. I often wondered how the tones would work if you could actually hunt in that mode but you can't. Another thing is that you can not Adjust Ground Balance in Discriminate mode.