figuring out Tesoro sounds

[cdsmith46]

Got it; that makes sense!!!

 

[homebre]

I agree with what you are saying. Except I always get fooled by pool tabs as they come out clean many times, depending on the metal in them. Although my hearing might not be so good!
Andy from Hillsborough

 

[hatpin]

Pull tabs sound great. I always dig them . They disc out at pulltab on the dial and when thumbing up {I generally use min disc } they usually give a double blip around the nickle mark. Thats with the stock coil on my vaq. It might be different on the 5.5 inch. I havent had much time on the smaller coil.. Some people dont like to thumb though.

 

[MarkCZ]

Pull tabs are one of those things if your digging jewelry you will have to dig the tabs, or leave the gold.

Mark

 

[Dan-Pa.]

What you need is a bunch of goodies rings and coins and the junk that imitates them and try some experimenting....in pinpoint some interesting variations also.

Hard to explain as we all have different hearing and use different headphones but go to a beach where digging is easy and a light just might go on when you compare a gold ring to the junk that imitates it...Tesoro especially the older models has more audio variances than most other detectors. Time in the field and experimentation is where its at and after a while you will be able to pick up differences in the goodies versus the baddies that imitate them. Not an exact science but sure cuts down the odds...

 

[atomicscott]

I had the same problem. I tried for over a year with the Vaquero, and couldn't hear any discernible differences in the single tone. I gave up and now I am very pleased that I moved on to multi tone machines.

Don't listen for the tone to change, but the quality of the tone. It don't give one tone for a nickel and a different tone for a quarter, in fact these will sound the same. But a the coins vs some trashy stuff like crumpled up foil or a rusty bottle cap will be "Clean and Smooth" vs "Harsh or Rough, maybe even a little Choppy"
When I first got my Tejon It wasn't to long before I started saying to myself 'This one doesn't sound very good' or 'This one sounds like a keeper'

Mark

That is exactly what I said, isn't it "single tone"? The different nuances of that "SINGLE TONE" (i.e. harsh, rough, choppy) were just too subtle to rely on & not accurate to me, especially when supertuned. I much prefer using ZERO disc on multi-tone machines now and I dig much less trash.

 

[ken ward]

You just have to give it a chance. Once you learn the language it will help a lot. You will wonder why you ever sold your other units.. Tesoros are just fun to use and are very good... KEN,, IND.

 

[MarkCZ]

I had the same problem. I tried for over a year with the Vaquero, and couldn't hear any discernible differences in the single tone. I gave up and now I am very pleased that I moved on to multi tone machines.

Don't listen for the tone to change, but the quality of the tone. It don't give one tone for a nickel and a different tone for a quarter, in fact these will sound the same. But a the coins vs some trashy stuff like crumpled up foil or a rusty bottle cap will be "Clean and Smooth" vs "Harsh or Rough, maybe even a little Choppy"
When I first got my Tejon It wasn't to long before I started saying to myself 'This one doesn't sound very good' or 'This one sounds like a keeper'

Mark

That is exactly what I said, isn't it "single tone"? The different nuances of that "SINGLE TONE" (i.e. harsh, rough, choppy) were just too subtle to rely on & not accurate to me, especially when supertuned. I much prefer using ZERO disc on multi-tone machines now and I dig much less trash.

Coins, Rings, and pull tabs and targets like them have a quality sound all to themselves.

That's fine, in this hobby its whatever works for the user.
I never owned a beep & dig detector until more recent times. I got the Tejon because of the claims of how much Tesoro's love gold, the higher frequency really likes Nickels and Gold Targets. And I decide that for the most part most of all the old silvers coins in our area are cleaned out, so I wanted to get something that hits good on Gold and very small gold targets. I decided that the gold is SO all over the ID range of my other detectors that a meter wasn't much use or necessary for searching for gold. Now, if I'm going coin shooting I'll take one of my metered units.
I also own a,

Fisher 1266 (given to me)
Fisher 1270,
Fisher Coinstrike,
Teknetics Omega, and a
Tejon,

Mark

 

[BarberBill]

In my own experience, I don't think a video would have helped me much with the exception of showing the scratcy sound right at the discrimination drop off. After many hours in the field, I realized that I had started to recognize very subtle differences in the sound and to this day I don't think I could describe it so that someone else with little experience could hear it.
BB

 

[4fun]

Best way to learn a tesoro, other people's experience's, lots of use in the field, good hearing, and some good old fashion luck. The luck is for getting something underneath your coil, the rest I am afraid is a lot of time with it in your hands using it. No short cuts.

 

[MichiganJason]

I know for a fact that the Vaquero audio is horrible and useless. The audio on the silver umax is much better and offers more info.

 

[hatpin]

The Vaquero tone is reliable. It wont lie to you like multi tone machines.

 

[hatpin]

I want a GoPro camera. I f I ever get one Ill make a video on how quickly and easily I can differentiate a pulltab from say , a dime. I still dig the pulltabs just in case. I dont use headphones either. Im disapointed in the depth of my Vaquero, it doesnt air test as deep as others Ive seen posted but the language it speaks, I think I do quite well with it.

 

[atomicscott]

My multi-tones don't lie, since I use zero discrimination, they actually tell me more info as to what conductivity is under the coil. If I want to dig iron I can, but I know it is in the iron audio range before I dig it without turning any knobs. I can also select the 1 tone option and not look at the display...now its a (deep) beep and dig!

 

[PostalTwo]

My multi-tones don't lie, since I use zero discrimination, they actually tell me more info as to what conductivity is under the coil. If I want to dig iron I can, but I know it is in the iron audio range before I dig it without turning any knobs. I can also select the 1 tone option and not look at the display...now its a (deep) beep and dig!

im glad that u have a machine thats working out for u. I realize due to some of your recent posts that u have discovered that tesoro one tone machines arnt for u, and theres nothing wrong with that but the op is asking about tesoros language and how to decipher them.i use a multi tone machine and doesent allways give the correct tone. It does most of the time but not allways.

 

[dan b]

I love my horrible useless Vaquero.

 

[BillF]

The original poster said that he had HEARING issues and couldn't tell the difference in the subtle tone changes on his Cibola.
I don't see how any of this has helped him with that .

 

[atomicscott]

The original poster said that he had HEARING issues and couldn't tell the difference in the subtle tone changes on his Cibola.
I don't see how any of this has helped him with that .

True Bill, I was just agreeing that I couldn't 'figure out' my Vaquero's sounds either. My suggestion would be a multi-tone machine, so there is no 'figuring out' involved. I know this won't help him with his Tesoro, but I do have total sympathy for the OP.

 

[MarkCZ]

The original poster said that he had HEARING issues and couldn't tell the difference in the subtle tone changes on his Cibola.
I don't see how any of this has helped him with that .

True Bill, I was just agreeing that I couldn't 'figure out' my Vaquero's sounds either. My suggestion would be a multi-tone machine, so there is no 'figuring out' involved. I know this won't help him with his Tesoro, but I do have total sympathy for the OP.

Well, you still have the problem of good and bad sounds with a multi-tone detector, just because it breaks down the target range into three or four groups doesn't just because a target falls into one of the groups that its a good target.

Mark

 

[PostalTwo]

Well said