Need Help With Full Tones

[Gator Gold 1]

I am interested in hunting with full tones. I live in central Florida where soil mineralization is relatively low. I typically hunt for coins in trashy sites, however sometimes hunt iron filled pastures. Can anyone specifically outline the full tones settings that would fit the aforementioned criteria (I would imagine 2 diff. Programs)? Also, do you believe I will gain more depth utilizing full tones? Thank you.

 

[Lodge Scent]

Ok, for your iron pastures maybe try this. In low mineralization, 8 kHz works really well on high conductors like silver. Personally I use minimum Discrimination…none if I can. If it gets too busy for you try Disc of around 6. If you are in real intense patches of iron you’ll want to keep Sensitivity and TX relatively low. Try 85 and 1. Reactivity of 3 and a bit of Silencer (0 or 1) is good in these trashy places. I like low Audio Response (3 or 4). My ear will pick up on those weak (and presumably deeper) signals. That’s just one way to approach it. There are many others. It really depends a lot on how you hunt, what you hunt and how much noise are you willing to deal with.

Tones has no direct bearing on depth. In very general terms, for raw depth in clean, weakly-mineralized ground; set Disc, Silencer, Reactivity and Frequency as low as you can and Sens and TX as high as you can. But because there is usually iron and trash and mineralization and EMI to deal with, you have to make compromises to your raw depth settings. Fortunately, the Deus is very adjustable and you can make the necessary changes to deal with those challenges without sacrificing an unacceptable amount of depth loss.

 

[Gator Gold 1]

Thank you very much for the detailed response!

 

[Potomac run]

good response thanks

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Full Tones may not give any additional depth by itself, however - those fringe targets that have audio but no VDI are clearer in Full Tones. I've dug a few 8" plus coins that in my soil, didn't register except for the slightest smooth increase in volume over the chatter. You can sometimes tell deep quarters vs deep pennies or dimes this way...without the aid of the screen.

If you have a notch window enabled, occasionally deeper non-VDI targets will "crackle" and sometimes sound like iron if the notch window is close to the actual out-of-hole VDI reading. I've found a LOT of Indian cents this way, and finally learned to unnotch it all while hunting for the older deeper coins. It really depends on what you're after - a great place to practice is a tot lot - a place where sometimes there's deep coins, and easy digging will get your ear tuned to how shallow vs deep coin targets sound

 

[CO_T\Huntr]

You would probably be better off leaving the Disc up between 6-10 as the Deus
was built to have some Disc going without any loss of depth.
the big hitters on depth are Reactive and Silencer...
The full tones setting is for your ears more than not, though in over 2 yrs
I haven't even tried it.. I normally use 3 tones where the low tone matches the Disc
and the other 2 are set for respective targets and the high notch 97-99 has been
very beneficial to eliminate the iron wrap around
I originally tweaked the relic mode and can easily get those dimes at 11 or 12 inches
even did it on the beach here in Panama City using the Dry Beach Mode with a few
little tweaks

 

[CO_T\Huntr]

You would probably be better off leaving the Disc up between 6-10 as the Deus
was built to have some Disc going without any loss of depth.
the big hitters on depth are Reactive and Silencer...
The full tones setting is for your ears more than not, though in over 2 yrs
I haven't even tried it.. I normally use 3 tones where the low tone matches the Disc
and the other 2 are set for respective targets and the high notch 97-99 has been
very beneficial to eliminate the iron wrap around
I originally tweaked the relic mode and can easily get those dimes at 11 or 12 inches
even did it on the beach here in Panama City using the Dry Beach Mode with a few
little tweaks
And the ground notch is very good at reducing or eliminating any falseing you may have

 

[Gator Gold 1]

Thank you everyone for taking the time to respond. I really appreciate the feedback.