Etrac audio settings with same flutey silver sounds as Exp2?

[Cal_Cobra]

I hunted an old park with a friend over the weekend who's an Exp2 guru. He was flagging potential deepie silver signals, and letting me listen to that flutey silver sound, but oddly my Etrac wasn't making a similar sound (although it has in the past). The TID#'s looked OK, one was a 12-45 and sure enough an 1894 Barber dime came up for about 5-6" deep, but I was missing a lot of targets because I was trying to just listen for that flutey silver sound. I suspect I may have inadvertently changed some of my audio settings, and that's why it wasn't sounding the same.

What audio settings are you guys using to get that tell tale Minelab flutey silver sound?

TIA,
Brian

 

[squirrel1]

I haven't operated any model explorer. But try this. Set your variability to at least 25, I like 29. Audio limt to 30. Go multi-tone. Set your threshold pitch to around 19 and scan a clad dime. If that sound doesn't fancy you try increasing your threshold pitch some. I will make this comment. I have dug silver dimes on edge and they didn't ring in as high as I'm accustomed to hearing them, but ID was xx44/45/46. I will always dig those signals no matter what tthe music sounds like. Cheers

 

[Blank Planet]

my 02's worth once you find a sound settling you like don't fiddle with it as i understand it our brains will set up neuro pathways after awhile to those sounds so the brain will recognise the sounds easier, its why people with time on a machine do better because of the change in brain pathways to the sounds. its true

explorer has different sounds to the etrac as well try giving your friend the etrac see how they go?

 

[mikeeatsbugs]

try long or smooth and increase your variability to 29. also, when i run in long or smooth, i run with: fast on, deep off, and gain at 30.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I'm the friend Cal Cobra refers to, who was swinging the Exp. II on this hunt. The park is a park that's given up a lot of silver over the years. And continues to give up oldies, for the current generation of explorer/etrac users who know who to ferret out those "come get me" deep silver/wheatie signals. Ie.: one of those type turfed parks where you pass up clad, and look for 5" or more deeper only type places.

I had 14 wheaties, an IH, a barber and an early merc, as compared to Brian getting a lone wheatie. I had Brian try several of my deepie signals with his etrac, before I dug. In each case, I was able to listen in on what his Etrac with 12" Sunray coil was doing: The Etrac heard them WITH ROOM TO SPARE. So simply hearing the target, was not the issue, apparently. The issue seems to be having an audio difference between those targets, and random shallower clad elsewhere, or flutters, or whatever. In other words, it's as if perhaps he had his settings in such a way as to be TOO hot, and thus loosing all tell-tale clues as to shallow verses deep, verses mono-tone verses fluty/warbly, etc...

Since I'm not familiar with the Etrac controls, I wasn't able to help him much. But I had a different friend in this park last year with the Etrac, and he pulled multiple oldies (silver, etc...) out of this park no problem (while digging probably zero clad).

So if anyone has a "deep turf silver" program they can lend Brian, let us know. It need not be one of those b*lls to the w*lls max power type programs, since perhaps that (too much squirelly power) might have been the problem. It's got to be settings that have the tell-tale differences from when it's a 4 or 5" deep clad dime, verses the 6 or 7" silver dime type audio clues differences. On the Exp. II, those deeper signals I chase in turf have a tell-tale "fluty" tone, which indicates they've been in the ground longer, are deeper, etc... As opposed to more recently lost and shallower stuff, and their tone is a bolder steady consistent "beep" note, and not as "fluty", if that makes any sense.