Genuine Excalibur Sounds, Recorded From Various Items...EDIT: UPADTED, New Sounds Added

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

There are many Excal users in this forum and several new ones. And probably a few that are thinking about getting one. The thing I like best about it is the variable tones, which are very much like the Sovereign series...the Excal essentially being a waterproof Sovereign.

It's true that it's generally best to "dig it all" at the beach, and I dig a lot. But I don't dig it ALL. I pass up what I know to be bottlecaps and sometimes pennies. But for the most part I dig them too, just to be sure. But when I hear GOLD, especially in the surf, I know how hard I should work for a target. If it's a penny, not too hard!

Here are some sounds I just recorded this evening, from my Excal, using actual finds from the beach...some recent, some older. If you're an experienced Excal user then they will be familiar to you. If not, maybe you will find it of interest. I'm going to try and work on putting up a web page with the pics to match the sounds when I have the time.

Here they are in the order of tone. They're all a little over 300K in size so may be a bit slow loading on dialup, but should play eventually...someday!

A "Fatty" silver ring...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/FattySilverRing.wav

A quarter...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/Quarter.wav

A zinc penny...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/Penny.wav

A 14K "Fatty" men's band...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/14KFattyMensBand.wav

A 14K medium men's diamond ring...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/14KMediumMensDiamondRing.wav

A 10K "Fatty" class ring...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/10KFattyClassRing.wav

A 14K "Fatty" ladie's topaz ring...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/14KFattyLadiesTopazRing.wav

These next 3 are almost too close to call. This illustrates why knocking out aluminum trash items is a bad idea...because pulltabs and other aluminum sounds a lot like many gold rings. And nickels are in there too.

A Nickel...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/Nickel.wav

A 10K medium men's diamond ring...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/10KMediumMensDiamondRing.wav

A Pulltab...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/PullTab.wav

A ladie's small/thin diamond ring...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/10KSmallLadiesDiamondRing.wav

An 18K anchor/eagle pendant from a men's gold chain...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/18KEagleAnchorPendant.wav

A thin ladie's 18K ring with opal...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/18KThinLadiesOpalRing.wav

A 1" x 1" square of aluminum foil...very similar to the small gold, but with a slight "sickly" quality...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/Foil.wav

A bottlecap...and these vary, but often sound like a fart...
http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/ExcalSounds/Bottlecap.wav

Anyway, I've wanted to do that for a while...just to do it. I used Windows Sound Recorder and a small microphone with the Excal in "Auto" sens to make it stable in the house and then just passed the items in front of the coil, trying to make the sounds as clean and crisp as possible. Hopefully it's either helpful or interesting to somebody.

 

[brobox]

Thank you for taking the time to post that information. After using a CZ 20 for many years and just switch over the the Excal I am still learning the tones. Your post was most helpful, but I still dig it all as well.

Thanks again,
Chuck in Cape Coral

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

I wish I had a platinum ring to record, but I have not yet been so lucky. I imagine it will be somewhere in the low to medium range. Maybe somebody who has bagged a platinum ring with an Excal could give us a comparison of what it sounded like in relation to one of my sound clips.

 

[Tinfoil]

n/t

 

[Gulf Hunter]

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[crow-duck]

Great job, and thanks for the info.My excal will be in the 5 .Cant wait to get wet!!!!!
crow-duck

 

[VaBeachRon]

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[thirdbornau]

Hi Mike,

Wow that's great i have had a good listen there and find there isn't a great difference in the tones for me. Probably that's why i have to dig everything i find it very hard to pick the tones out. If you come to Ozz sometime i need lessons 'DEAL' I have downloaded all the tones and will keep them to practice you have done a marvellous job just what we needed.

Maureen..

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Glad you liked them. I have a few more items I'm going to record and will post an "Update" when I get them done. One is a bottlecap. I also need some platinum and a few more representative rings, maybe a watch and a chain.

 

[bdahunter]

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[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Yeah, that would be cool. Whatever you have. I have some 18K but I'll take any good sound clips you can provide. It would be nice if they could be made to be similar to what I already have as far as the sweep length and description. I can take care of all the editing if I just get a good clip. I've been taking samples that were maybe 30 seconds long and then finding the cleanest 2 second piece of it and editing out everything else. Then I match the volume on the different clips. That keeps the size of the files down and the quality up.