Ferrous Sensetivity

[Anonymous]

I have decided to use the ferrous setting rather than the conduc setting as the tones in high trash areas can be confusing. What I would like to know is this: Using this setting is the machine any less sensative to objects in the ground ie does the Conduct setting pick them up easier or are both identical. It seems so much more noisy in conduct and am therefore puzzled as to why - is conduct picking more up? If it only changes the audio signal, why more noise on one setting than the other?

 

[Anonymous]

they both see as much as the other does, the reason you might think its noisier is iron reads high on the conductive audio, so your getting more high tones with iron and iron falses.. in ferrous you get high tones from tin and steel bottle caps though, so I guess its a matter of what type of trash is around.. lots of iron around you might want to use ferrous and dig anything thats a higher tone than iron, lots of tin you might want to use conductive.. what ever your happier with as long as you learn what each one makes targets sound like

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jim, so I guess I'm not missing anything. Using ferrous is so much easier on my ears and in the UK we do have a load of junky sites so for the time being I'll stick with it. Thanx again