help with tone identification

[traviswells]

Does anyone know of any videos that show the slight diff in falsing iron and good silver signals. Long shot but it sure would be nice to be able to hear and see the diff. explained by someone who can hear them.

Thanks Travis

new user of explorer xs

 

[dewcon4414]

Try down loading the Explorer emulator. I think the guys over at mine lab owners dot com has it on their site. You do know you can adjust your threshold tone to change it a bit... even emulate other detectors like the white if thats the machines you were used to. If you are getting way too much iron for you to handle in a spot ... switch to Ferr sounds or use IM say 22.

Dew

 

[Steve(MS)]

Since you have the XS, I would run it in iron
mask,say around -10 till you get experienced with
using it some.
If you plan on using conduct sounds, time and doing some digging will help more than anything
else.
What I do is use a small amount of iron mask and use a cleared program screen which I will toggle to when I get questionable signals that might be good. When I do this, I see where the cursor lands, if it locks in the left top corner of the screen, I generally know I am over iron.
Generally speaking you know you are going for the right kind of signals if you dig some bent nails or small iron wire or nails with globs on them.
Another good clue is to watch the depth meter,
if it shows halfway or more shallow, most of the time these will be nails.
I will dig some of those iffy signals and if most of them are nails, then I go for a little better audio signal from then on at the particular sight.
On those better iffy signals, the cursor will tend
to bounce toward the right on the screen whereas the more questionable signals will try to end up in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
I have my doubts that there is any videos showing these iffy signals.
If you know an experienced Explorer user near, that would be a good help.
The way I learned this was the hard way by digging a bunch of holes and seeing how it turned out, I guess out of curiosity to see what the detector was telling me.
Starting out at -10 iron mask, if you get a break thru signal that sounds fairly good, dig it and see what happens, I have dug some deep ones using a lot of discrimination when I first started using the Explorer so after using the XS some, you should get the hang of it.

 

[Patrick(MI)]

I lowered mine to 2 and find I am doing less work listening because when I hear a high tone it now jumps out at me like a beacon in the night. When I had it at 5, with my bad hearing, it was too close to good signals and I really had to concentrate on separating the sounds. Should have done that years ago.

 

[Steve(MS)]

That's what is great about the Explorer, you can tailor it to fit
your personal needs.
I need to caution those who change the threshold tone however
because it changes all the tones by the same amount.
In other words if you change from 5 to 2, then you may need to
get used to the new setting because it lowers all tones received
by the same amount.
Another quick note about learning the difference between iron chirps
and those marginal high coin tones signals is these coin signals have
a little better quality high tone warble signal than the iron chirps.
Learning the distinguish these takes some experimenting and some
digging.
Iron chirps tend to be more broken in tones while
coins tend to still retain a hint of the warble tones associated with
how coins sound.
I hope this makes sense as it is hard to put in writing.
Remember too this can vary somewhat site to site so do a little digging
at first to see what your detector is telling you then you can adjust to what type
signals to dig.

 

[Patrick(MI)]

changing my threshold tone to 2 hasn't affected the other tones in any noticeable way. Now it could be related to my hearing but the only tone change I can hear is the one related to the threshold tone itself. But thanks for the heads up.