Okay, let me say upfront that I really like tone ID, and dont care too much for gawking at meters. so, just what are the tone options on the MXT I wonder?
UPDATE: After reading the manual I see one possible tone scenario that goes like this:
Hunt site - Vollyball court on a late afternoon beach. Earlier in the day it was crowded here; you had come down to reconnoiter from your hotel room and had watched a vollyball tourney on this very court.
Mode - Relic
Disc - Set to pivot on NICKLE (as verified with a 5 cent coin), thus giving the 'Mixed' or 'threshold' tone for that target.
Gain - preset; or higher as conditions permit
NOTE: As a training aid, you have COVERED YOUR DISPLAY with electrical tape, except for the area that displays the 'ID Probability' bars.
As you scan the coil you encounter a target. The tone produced is solid, and is your pivot tone - what White's calls a 'Mixed' or 'threshold' tone. The probability shows full. You scoop and retrieve a nickle. Good.
On the next coil pass you encounter a LOW tone, ie, below 'Mixed' tone. The Prob bar jumps between full and half and you retrieve a foil wad and move on. Darn.
A little further on, you get a HIGH tone, one that is above the 'Mixed' tone. It shows full probability, up into the coin end of the range, so you hit the mode sitch to 'pulltab reject' - the signal is still clear and solid. Scooping it up, you sift a quarter into your hand. Yippee, this thing works!
Encouraged at your cleverness, you move on and right near the sideline, you get another HIGH tone. It has full bar probability in the middle range and you can tell it's shallow. Your coil is at 6" high and you still get it. Again you hit the mode switch, only this time it cuts out in pulltab reject. Since it's the beach, you scoop it regardless and get what you expected - a pulltab. Oh, piffle!
Finally, you work towards the center of the net, now thinking about the busomy girl who almost popped out of her top earlier, right at that spot. You almost spit out your beer when it happened and you remember being glad your wife wasn't around at the time.
Again, you get a hard hit, also a HIGH tone, at center net. But, this time, you stop daydreaming long enough to switch to the secondary mode again, forcing yourself not to look at the probability bar - TONE ONLY this time.
In "Pull tab reject," the signal cuts out. But you scoop it anyway, since it was a little farther up from the last pulltab reading (and it's the beach, remember?). You shake the scoop... and as the sand runs out you hear a metallic clattering from within. You lift the Oakleys you found last week on another beach and peer into the scoop. In the still-bright afternoon light, you spy a shiny gold band with several red stones winking up at you.
The buxom beach sprite of earlier is now quickly forgotten, and you give a whoop and holler at your great Luck!
Just then your wife steps easily onto the sand nearby, her sandals held loosely in her hand. She's dressed for dinner in that new dress she bought, and you think how pretty she is.
She looks at you and says,"What did you find, honey?"
You gaze at her for a moment, still glad to see her.
"Oh nuttin honey, nuttin" - and you retrieve the ring from your scoop.
The next whoop you hear is hers, as she spies the ring, snatches it up and plants a big kiss on your cheek - all in one practiced movement. After all, you've been 'detecting jewelry for her' for several years now. She slides the ring onto her finger.
"Oh, it's beautiful - and it's a perfect fit!" she exclaims.
You just smile again.
As I understand it, the MXT allows for just this sort of hunt regime. Is that true?
UPDATE: After reading the manual I see one possible tone scenario that goes like this:
Hunt site - Vollyball court on a late afternoon beach. Earlier in the day it was crowded here; you had come down to reconnoiter from your hotel room and had watched a vollyball tourney on this very court.
Mode - Relic
Disc - Set to pivot on NICKLE (as verified with a 5 cent coin), thus giving the 'Mixed' or 'threshold' tone for that target.
Gain - preset; or higher as conditions permit
NOTE: As a training aid, you have COVERED YOUR DISPLAY with electrical tape, except for the area that displays the 'ID Probability' bars.
As you scan the coil you encounter a target. The tone produced is solid, and is your pivot tone - what White's calls a 'Mixed' or 'threshold' tone. The probability shows full. You scoop and retrieve a nickle. Good.
On the next coil pass you encounter a LOW tone, ie, below 'Mixed' tone. The Prob bar jumps between full and half and you retrieve a foil wad and move on. Darn.
A little further on, you get a HIGH tone, one that is above the 'Mixed' tone. It shows full probability, up into the coin end of the range, so you hit the mode sitch to 'pulltab reject' - the signal is still clear and solid. Scooping it up, you sift a quarter into your hand. Yippee, this thing works!
Encouraged at your cleverness, you move on and right near the sideline, you get another HIGH tone. It has full bar probability in the middle range and you can tell it's shallow. Your coil is at 6" high and you still get it. Again you hit the mode switch, only this time it cuts out in pulltab reject. Since it's the beach, you scoop it regardless and get what you expected - a pulltab. Oh, piffle!
Finally, you work towards the center of the net, now thinking about the busomy girl who almost popped out of her top earlier, right at that spot. You almost spit out your beer when it happened and you remember being glad your wife wasn't around at the time.
Again, you get a hard hit, also a HIGH tone, at center net. But, this time, you stop daydreaming long enough to switch to the secondary mode again, forcing yourself not to look at the probability bar - TONE ONLY this time.
In "Pull tab reject," the signal cuts out. But you scoop it anyway, since it was a little farther up from the last pulltab reading (and it's the beach, remember?). You shake the scoop... and as the sand runs out you hear a metallic clattering from within. You lift the Oakleys you found last week on another beach and peer into the scoop. In the still-bright afternoon light, you spy a shiny gold band with several red stones winking up at you.
The buxom beach sprite of earlier is now quickly forgotten, and you give a whoop and holler at your great Luck!
Just then your wife steps easily onto the sand nearby, her sandals held loosely in her hand. She's dressed for dinner in that new dress she bought, and you think how pretty she is.
She looks at you and says,"What did you find, honey?"
You gaze at her for a moment, still glad to see her.
"Oh nuttin honey, nuttin" - and you retrieve the ring from your scoop.
The next whoop you hear is hers, as she spies the ring, snatches it up and plants a big kiss on your cheek - all in one practiced movement. After all, you've been 'detecting jewelry for her' for several years now. She slides the ring onto her finger.
"Oh, it's beautiful - and it's a perfect fit!" she exclaims.
You just smile again.
As I understand it, the MXT allows for just this sort of hunt regime. Is that true?
there are always variables and I am always learning with my MXT.
The alternate relic mode, trigger forward is pretty cool for coin hunting too.
I also have the MXT and after spending time with it I find the mixed mode tone ID in the relic mode to be just fine depending on how you set the disk it works pretty darn good, personally I like it better than the tone ID set ups on the M6 and the CZ 70 Pro detectors myself, again this is personal preference not to offend anyone.