christopher-ohio
Active member
I was trying out different settings and airtesting an SE Pro tonight with various targets. I noticed that if I used conductive sounds with a silver dime for example with a bunch of square nails around it that I would hear it clearly(high tone) through the null using Bryce Brown's SE settings(conductive sounds) in Andy's book but if I hunted my "usual way" in ferrous and all metal with the same target, that same dime sounded like a trash real low midtone target at almost all angles which I probably wouldn't dig. I also noticed that the conductive number varied very little and it was the ferrous number that changed like the E-Trac. Considering the E-Trac coin program which uses conductive sounds too, I'm wondering if the reason some targets are being found with the E-Trac after an SE is because of the machine set-up particularly in ferrous all-metal and the tedency not to dig those low midtones and if the Slimline SE coil is being used instead of the Pro coil? Plus, hunting with the E-Trac wide open is almost impossible to do for too long in my experience. So what I'm trying to say is that Andy and many other experienced Explorer/E-trac users of this forum have espoused the use of patterns/iron mask for this very reason I believe. I think the next step is to set-up of both machines in essentially the same way and try it on real world in the ground targets and see what happens. For those who may have done this already, any info would be appreciated and benefit many...thanks in advance...HH