Does Makro Racer Gain setting affect Depth or just volume

[flbeachhunter]

I watched a very good video by Gary where he stated the Gain setting on the Macro Racer is really a volume adjustment and has no effect on depth (unless of course the volume is so low you can't hear the Target).

He reduced the Gain setting down to "one" on a deep target and still got a beautiful tone, then placed a target on the surface nearby and demonstrated what that sounded like at a gain setting of "one". You could easily determine by the strength of the tone if your target was shallow or deep with a lower Gain setting of one, but with a gain setting of 70 (or even 60), it all was just too loud to determine if it was shallow or deep. It improved at a setting of 40, but at a setting of "one", it was very good.

Do the members that currently have a Makro Racer agree with this? Maybe a very low gain setting does not reduce depth, only volume?

Maybe Keith Southern or Monte could try this in the test Garden and see if the depth is reduced with a low Gain setting?

 

[squirrel1]

With a Sens of '60'...... the unit is nearly at max depth. Any additional boost in sensitivity (for the most part) only increases the audio volume on weak/deep/fringe targets. This is to say..... the modulated audio is circumvented when increasing Sens above the 60 - 65 range....... with the 11" DD coil. Sensitivity on this unit is called 'GAIN'.

 

[Keith Southern]

The Racer is alot like the Omega..

On the Omega the sens is maxed at 70 sens..after that as you go up on the sens its actually adding thresh to the point of saturation of modulation..

The CoRe is setup like a T2 for comparison in sens control..

Keith

 

[bubbadirect]

The Racer is alot like the Omega..

On the Omega the sens is maxed at 70 sens..after that as you go up on the sens its actually adding thresh to the point of saturation of modulation..

The CoRe is setup like a T2 for comparison in sens control..

Keith

What mode is preferred monte for you di2 or di3 in trash and old iron?

 

[staffydog33]

So regardless of whether the gain is at 1 or 99, it will still pick up a coin buried at 8" just give a different tone?