Elite and threshold setting/volume

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
What is the best level for the threshold. i keep reading that the proper level is key to getting deep targets. How do I knwo that I have it set properly? Also is Florida considerd to have mineralized or non-mineralized ground?
thanks,
Richard

 

[Anonymous]

The treshold should be set to a slight buzzing, enough to be audible to you. The idea is that you need to be able to hear when the treshold is broken...in other words, goes silent. This is your tipoff to one of two things...it has passed over something that you have discriminated out OR it has passed over something that is so deep it didn't get a good ID off of it. So when the treshold breaks, you need to hit it from multiple angles and slowly and carefully in order to determine if you can get a "digger" out of it or if it is really something that's nulling out due to being iron or being notched or discriminated out. Sometimes those deep silvers will only produce a good signal from a certain angle or direction. In those cases, if you get a "near miss" while swinging, it may null on you and break the treshold. With a non-threshold machine, you would go right past it. So that's what they mean by the treshold being key. Get it? So set it to a slight buzzing in your headphones...not too loud, just loud enough. Like the gentle buzzing of a bee, as Dan(PA) likes to say.

 

[Anonymous]

What Mike said was key ...I also tend to notice that when the threshold is broken...you need to listen to what it sounds like when it returns...If it were something of a highly condutive nature then it will return,with a slightly different tone,and this for me is something I have trained myself to listen for,beign that it helps detirmine if it was a good target or perhaps deep iron....the threshold I find can be tricky because it may be perfect one second then turn raspy on ya depending on the ground conditions,slight adjustments may need to be made,while hunting...usually i set it and go but a few spots i hunt the thing wont settle down unless I make it virtually silent....

 

[Anonymous]

Thankyou thankyou....I think I understand.... <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">

 

[Anonymous]

I never did quite get what the manual said about using the threshold. This thread finally explained it. Thanks. But the problem I have is that to get the slight buzz I usually have to turn the knob way above the suggested setting. (??) Then eventually the sound gets too loud and I have to turn it down. Then I won't get anything for awhile and have to turn it up again. Can't get it to keep a steady volume.
I end up getting frustrated and run silent but know I am missing deep targets because I haven't dug any small targets deeper than 6 inches. Any suggestions?

 

[Anonymous]

When you set the Threshold are you setting it in all metal or disc?? It is to be set in all metal pinpoint with the coil in the air, then switch to disc. The threshold will null of a disc item or iron and come back with a low tone growl untill it sees its next target. The volume may sound louder on some of the items depending on your hearing. I also find that running the volume of the Sovereign all the way max (clockwise) then adjusting the volume on your headphones works the best for hearing the deep signals.
Now going slow and listening to each target you will hear the threshold null or go positive of a target the Sovereign sees. What you want to hear is the ones the tone will change to a fast high tone of a good target and by doing the Sovereign wiggle the tone will lock on and be repeatable.
Many times in some of the cleaner areas you may get a null and the threshold may stay this way for a while with to me is louder growl that will get anoying, I will switch to pinpoint then back to disc to reset the threshold, but I never adjust the threshold while in disc.
Rick