Question about Vaquero Threshold

[Treasurechic]

I watched all of Mikes Vids on You Tube and they are an excellent reference for a new user, the only question I have is that we are told to set the Thresh. to just audible, yet he shows to set it at about 3 oclock, which seems much higher than just audible. Is this a good setting for hunting. I just want to get the best all-around performance out of my machine.

 

[DigDugNY]

When your in disc mode, you cant hear the threshold anyways because it is silent...so if you want to supertune the detector just set the threshold all the way up while detecting. If you are going to switch it to all metal mode just turn the threshold down to 3 o'clock so it doesnt blast your ears, lol

 

[POLEWAGGER]

Lowering the threshold adjustment will cause deeper or smaller targets to hit with less intensity on my Cibola. (while in disc mode)
I'm certain it's the same with the V also.
You're more likely to notice a deeper target with the thresh pegged, but when pinpointing in all metal, the tone will be screaming too much to be effective.
I go through the annoying process of dialing the thresh back every time I switch to all metal, just to run it pegged during normal detecting.

 

[thump7]

When I first got my Vaq, I ran it supertuned all the time. I realize now after spending much time with it that it was pointless.
RUNNING THE VAQUERO SUPERTUNED (SENS NEAR MAX, THRESH NEAR MAX) WILL PUT THE DISC WAY OUT.
When supertuned the detector becomes more sensitive to iron and trash. There are ways around this if you want to play with the knobs when you have a deep signal, BUT, I have found that the most effective way to to get the deep deep non-ferrous is to #1 balance the detector as perfecctly as possible #2 leave the thresh at a just audible level, sens hovering around 10 or above if possible and if the area is not too trashy, run it with the red button (All-metal) pushed in with the disc on foil. When you get the soft woot---woot check it slowly in disc. I find the All-metal very useful on this machine.

Hope this helps.

 

[DigDugNY]

When I first got my Vaq, I ran it supertuned all the time. I realize now after spending much time with it that it was pointless.
RUNNING THE VAQUERO SUPERTUNED (SENS NEAR MAX, THRESH NEAR MAX) WILL PUT THE DISC WAY OUT.
When supertuned the detector becomes more sensitive to iron and trash. There are ways around this if you want to play with the knobs when you have a deep signal, BUT, I have found that the most effective way to to get the deep deep non-ferrous is to #1 balance the detector as perfecctly as possible #2 leave the thresh at a just audible level, sens hovering around 10 or above if possible and if the area is not too trashy, run it with the red button (All-metal) pushed in with the disc on foil. When you get the soft woot---woot check it slowly in disc. I find the All-metal very useful on this machine.

Hope this helps.

Your last little part there gets confusing. When do you run all metal and when do you run disc? Do you use the threshold when detecting or do you use the silent search in disc mode?

 

[:Left4Dead]

Ok, threshold cranked all the way up you will always get a loud audible tone no matter how deep the item is. With it properly set up for pinpointing at a low audible tone, it will help you with depth on targets.


If its set correctly coin and rings that are deeper will give you softer tones, while one closer to the coil will be louder. This helps me because I like the soft two way tone knowing it could be a silver coin that 6-8 " deep.

Also your pinpointing works good around 1pm. It will not work with a cranked threshold.

Hope this helps.

Mike

 

[:Left4Dead]

Here is a quick vid I just made.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvXO6H049wY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[thump7]

When I first got my Vaq, I ran it supertuned all the time. I realize now after spending much time with it that it was pointless.
RUNNING THE VAQUERO SUPERTUNED (SENS NEAR MAX, THRESH NEAR MAX) WILL PUT THE DISC WAY OUT.
When supertuned the detector becomes more sensitive to iron and trash. There are ways around this if you want to play with the knobs when you have a deep signal, BUT, I have found that the most effective way to to get the deep deep non-ferrous is to #1 balance the detector as perfecctly as possible #2 leave the thresh at a just audible level, sens hovering around 10 or above if possible and if the area is not too trashy, run it with the red button (All-metal) pushed in with the disc on foil. When you get the soft woot---woot check it slowly in disc. I find the All-metal very useful on this machine.

Hope this helps.

Your last little part there gets confusing. When do you run all metal and when do you run disc? Do you use the threshold when detecting or do you use the silent search in disc mode?

I run it in both disc and all-metal. Using all metal to locate targets by pushing the red button and releasing the red button to check in disc mode.

I find with the sens cranked that the detetor starts to chirp and click on iron and trash which I can distinguish from a true signal. If I then also crank the threshold these little chirps become a repeatable signal, some smooth and some not. With threshold at a barely audible I can work back and forth from all-metal and disc mode, and also the true deep signals will still register in disc mode. But to each their own.