New Explorer SE

[joeltshuman1]

This is Joel T Shuman Again.........................
Would like to ask on the sounds of my New Explorer Se..................
When I am hunting for Relics, again I had my Ironmast set to all white and my sensitivity to 20 and set to DEEP......
The problem I think I am having is that I am hearing low and high sounds almost at the same time. The only good high pitch sound is the coins..... The other sounds are so low some times that the high pitch sounds are grounding the low sounds out when I am Relics hunting... So I am missing Targets........
How can you hear the sounds for Relics Hunting? This machine sounds like a runaway train sometimes... The sounds for Relics Hunting is not as Sharp as hunting for coins... I can hardly hear
the Bullets and Buttons that I put 4" in the Ground, I though this machine could go DEEP?
Help Me some one and I will treat you for Lunch...
JT Shuman

 

[RedRockNv]

I kind of had the same problem I turned down the gain very low now the sounds are as they should be. In my mind anyway.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

You can't put bullets and buttons in the ground and get any depth out of them. The real thing has been buried for 150 years and has a nice "halo" around it with a century and a half of metal leaching out into the soil around it and creating that "field" that gives a deep detector it's depth. When you bury something what you are in effect doing is an "air test", which does not give a meaningful indicattion of potential performance with long-buried targets.

By the way, are you using some good headphones with it? The Koss phones that came with it? They seem pretty good. I think you may need to lower your Gain a bit from the default of 8 to about 5 or 6, to allow the machine to stabilize a little and settle down sound-wise for you. Also, are you running Noise Cancel every time you fire up the machine to hunt and periodically if it gets a little "busy" on you? It also sounds like you're hunting in either a very trashy spot or in an iron-laden area. That can be challenging for the most experienced hunters and exceptionally so for a new user. In that case it might be better if you tried a cleaner spot to get to learn the machine. Or use your iron mask to cover up some of the stuff that's driving you nuts. Set it to about 20. You will get a lot of nulling, where your threshold will go away, but the good targets will come through if you go slow and be patient. Also, when you get over a target I wonder if you may not be moving the coil back and forth over the target quickly enough...from side to side. If you get on the target and you're trying to get your best tone, numbers, Smartfind...whatever...then you need to quicken and tighten the swing over the target and "massage" it from a few different directions to coax the best info from it. That's my technique anyway.

If none of that helps or makes any sense then you have two choices.

1) Get with somebody who knows their Explorer and have them show you what it is that you're missing.

2) Sell it and buy an MXT if it's doing that well.