Tones? Disc?

[jbow]

How do you set your tones and your disc?

Most places I hunt hold both coins and relics, some decent iron relics... so I like to set my disc to at least -40 and sometimes only disc out +95

Usually tone ID drives me nuts, shallow targets give too many tones and I tend to spend most of my time tweaking this or that. Got to set the freq offset for EMI, got to GB and decide between auto tracking or manual, how aggressive in auto, ground filter, recovery delay, disc sensitivity. RX gain, is this a flase or a hit? and on and on... and I get frustrated.

I am thinking maybe I need a more simple tone scheme with 2 to 4 tones max. I still like to use minimum disc but this isn't a problem on most machines if I set the tones right.

Any thoughts on this? Do you find the V3 to false less with fewer tones?

Thanks,

Julien

 

[Bradley137]

If you like little discrimination, Accept all Vdi and set tones to "0" for everything you don't won't to hear.... it's audio discrimination. I do this alot. Also have only a few tones you deal with perhaps 1 tone for higher end targets and 2 tone for lower end targets.

 

[jbow]

Thanks, I am going to work on it this weekend.

J

 

[bfodnes]

To many tones can be very frustrating and wear you out, I have a completely different use of the tones.

I have made a number of programs out of the base Relic program cause it has Mixed mode.

I disc out the VDI sounds from -95 to - 31 and open them up from -30 to +95. There is not many clean hits in the -30 to 0 region anyway but it helps alot on the recovery speed especially on the lower numbers like some gold items give.

I use a pretty high tone, it is now set at 225. same number on all open numbers.

I have a few of these programs set up with a slightly lower tone on " trouble trash " targets.

As an example I have a few fields that are littered with 762 casings and remington shells. At those sites I change the tones on the numbers from +47 to +53 to a slightly lower tone. 200... This is my way of notching but still be in control of the possibility to use the spade.

Then it is possible to recognize the trouble target by paying special attention to the spectragraph and if in more doubt before digging also focus on the pinpoint bars.

The V3 s possiblity to assign tones can be used as clever as you want, much more clever then the traditional ID mode.

 

[jbow]

That sounds good, thanks. I really think the whole tone thing has been overwhelming to me. Especially in mixed mode.. if I turn on "tone ID" and VCO... then there is the threshold and base threshold, at which point I become confused trying to remember which does what and what I tweaked or what I should tweak...arrrrghhhh.

But, i'll get it figured out and when I will wonder why it took me so long to "get it". I know part of it is because the V3 is my first White's and much of the terminology is different from the terminology some other manufacturers use and the manual isn't the best at really explaining everything, people on the forums are mostly long time White's users and assume everyone knows what they are talking about, and no one has WRITTEN A BOOK on the V3, I sure wish someone would step up and write a good "V3 for Dummies" book, laff. I kept hearing that Jeff Foster was writing one but I guess not. I wish someone would.

I hope I feel like getting out tomorrow.

Thanks!

J