GAIN?????????WHAT GIVES??? SE

[digitrich]

On the SE,I thought the gain was just an increase to the volume of the deep signals, like turning up the sound, so faint signals were easier to hear. However, lots of people are talking about the gain like its tied into the sensitivity some how, is it? If it is then turning up gain would be like turning on deep, right? Why would they have both? The way the manual explains it, when you turn up the gain; your just increasing the loudness of the sound of faint signals and because of this it is harder to tell which r deep signals or medium deep signals. So which is it? An increase in loudness of faint signals or some kind of deep sensitivity adjustment(or according to some posts) deep oversensitivity adjustment? Why are all metal detector instruction booklets written by people who want to conserve paper. Like why the am I typing these questions out to you guys when I just paid 1200 bucks for this machine. Couldn't they have gone into a little more detail on some of this crap????????? I think so, hey Mine Lab WHERES MY IDIOT VIDEO,,,, CAUSE HEY, I MIGHT HAVE 1200 HUNDRED DOLLARS TO SPEND, BUT I'M STILL AN IDIOT, and idiots need VIDEOS AND LONG OVER EXPLAINED BOOKLETS, kill the trees, make me smarter, please.Just a thought.

 

[Robin (MI)]

I have the Exp SX and II. Not sure what the guys are talking about, but from what I understand, the gain setting works like an amplifier. At preset the weak signals sound weak and deep. As you increase the gain say halfway to max., you amplify the signal so now what was the weakest, deepest signal sounds like it is at five or six inches. As you max out the gain setting the weak signals are amplified so much that they sound like the target is on top of the ground. This can be useful but remember you are amplifying everything, so in real trashy/iron sites, all the little false signals off of iron and the tiny trash signals are going to sound like large targets on top of the ground.

I guess if you set the machine up with max gain and got use to it, it would be ok. You would spend lots of time looking at the depth gauge though.

Personal, I would only use max gain in an area that is fairly clean, where I had found coins/targets at the max. depth and wanted to hear the real deep ones better.

Hope this helps and HH - Robin

 

[SNOWY]

Digitrech, the way I see this "gain" setting, it boosts or decreases the audio sound that you hear when you detect something...
If it is all ahead full you will hear both deep, and shallow hits at the same full sound.
But when you slide it back to say 6 to 7 you will hear a fainter sound for deep targets, and a louder sound for shallow targets.
This is something I like, as I get an audio impression of a targets likely depth, compared to maybe another target.
This can be handy info if you are looking for deeper ( maybe older ) objects.

As I see it...



HH

Snowy

 

[RedRockNv]

I seem to get move differentiation of sound with gain at 1 and my ears arn't getting blasted by every piece of crap in the ground. Next time out I am going to try gain at 3 volume 78-8 deep on. The factory seting are way over driven IMHO. My black widows are pretty good phones maybe that is where my prediliction for lower things comes from. With the factory setting everything seems loud like it is right on the surface. I really want to get a feel from the sound where things are in the ground. Does that make sense?

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Most are intimidated by the small telephone book manual and an Explorer is only as easy or hard as you want it to be. Yep those manuals are probably written by techs whereas they should be written by an experienced Explorer hunter along with the techs as they surely are short and sweet.
My advice is to find an experienced Explorer user perhaps a club member and spend some time hunting together and it will be like reading the manual 50 times..
Personally when I received my Explorer XS I surely tried a lot of units but everything fell into place with his expertise when I spent some time with a experienced Explorer user...
Heck I drive my car every day, but don't have a prayer how it works and depend on an experienced mechanic to keep it working well...