New Legend Owner

[QBCoach]

Guys I received my new Legend yesterday. I have been wanting to purchase a Legend for the past few months. I follow your Legend post daily as I want to learn and I was hoping that the experienced Legend owners could share some start up tips as I know there will be a steep learning curve? I have been swinging an AT PRO for ten plus years and that was a simple machine to learn and use. I was told until I truly learn the Legend, I should use the factory Default setting. If that is your recommendation, would some one share how to set it at the Factory Default? Thanks for any help and/or suggestions!
Coach

 

[sprchng]

Use the KISS technique , it really is a lot simpler than it seems. Let the machine find the best frequency , ground balance , set it to track the ground and go for it. I work in a few settings as I go along and get familiar but really recovery speed and frequency are the ones you will play with the most depending on the type of detecting you are doing. I hunt parks mostly and run single frequency the most , find I can run near full power almost everywhere and I'm digging as many wheats and silver coins with the LG35 coil as I did with the CTX. There are a lot of sub menus for things you may or not want to mess with , iron filter , bottle caps , ground analysis , etc, so I made a little cheat sheet with the roadmap to accessing those types of functions that I carry in my wallet if it strikes my fancy to go there. Most of the personal settings carry from one program or mode to another so find the number of tones and sounds that fit your ears and go for it.

 

[QBCoach]

Thank you for your reply. I will be hunting a very large farm field in South Central Pennsylvania tomorrow. I have set the machine to the Fields setting, however I am wondering if there is anything else I should be concerned about? Thanks again for your feedback!

 

[JCR TX]

If you are proficient with the AT Pro, you will not have any real problems learning The Legend. It is still all in the audio.

 

[sprchng]

Thank you for your reply. I will be hunting a very large farm field in South Central Pennsylvania tomorrow. I have set the machine to the Fields setting, however I am wondering if there is anything else I should be concerned about? Thanks again for your feedback!

For that kind of detecting , I'm not the guy you want under center. I would probably noise cancel , ground balance , pick field and go with sensitivity on 30 in A or G to start with recovery at 4,,,,,I probably wouldn't find much either but would probably do a lot of digging

 

[QBCoach]

For that kind of detecting , I'm not the guy you want under center. I would probably noise cancel , ground balance , pick field and go with sensitivity on 30 in A or G to start with recovery at 4,,,,,I probably wouldn't find much either but would probably do a lot of digging

Good advice. You certainly sound like a QB!

 

[SSuper]

From my personal experience, go slow and use default settings as you learn what it's trying to tell you. Read and re-read the manual for your current software and watch videos.
No need to overwhelm yourself.

 

[PDH]

Coach, you've gotten plenty of great advice above. Pa farm field sounds like relics to me. If that's the case, I would start in default field mode, M1, all metal. Civil war bullets come in around 41, round balls a little lower at about 36. Brass buttons range from 30 to around 40. Good luck and let us know how you made out.

 

[Picketwire]

Set it up like you set up your AT or how you wished you could have if you could change something. You can notch or disc out what worked for you before. You can set the tones to the same breakpoints and frequencies or add another tone if you like. If you liked standard mode, you can set it up like that. If you liked pro mode better it is already set up more like that. If you like two tone, leave it as is. If you like to hear iron, use disc A or G. If not use the default. The default is already set the minute you turn it on, two tone, no iron sound. The manual will give you all the default settings. The detector will not go back to default when you shut if off, it will save any setting you change. You can do a factory reset to get back to default settings but it will wipe out any changes you have made in all the other modes too.

I don't think there is much of a learning curve to operate the Legend successfully, just turn it on and go will work. It is the same learning curve with any detector: just observe what it is trying to tell you and, find weak targets to experiment on, to find the absolute best settings for you, just like you have done on the AT Pro.

The best advice is get out and use it for a couple of hundred hours. What works best for others won't necessarily work best for you.

 

[Ronstar]

Ditto on all of the above. Best starting advise I could give is dig any signal thats sounding good, period. Yes you dig trash but one super find in a trashy number sequence is well worth it. I recently dug a bottle cap number that indeed was a cap on a bottle but it sounded much crisper. Inside the glass bottle was an 1859 Canadian large cent!!! Not sure if I was getting the rusty cap or the bronze penny.

Not hard to learn but as said, KISS and learn!!!

 

[QBCoach]

Guys thank you very much for all of your feedback and suggestions. I did get out on Saturday. Even though I was not able to pull any silver or relics, I really like how the machine operated. I will get more familiar with it every time out. As soon as I find something special, I will most definitely post it. Thanks again.

Coach

 

[TRIPLE-SSS]

Hi, Got one recently also, go to y-tube and Will know everything about the Legend and the how to. To really know how to get familiar with it, you have to get out in the field and get use to the tones, numbers, and the factory settings. I had an AT-PRO for about 12 years and it was a pretty easy transition. You will really like it once you get to know it.
TRIPLE-SSS

 

[mdsteve]

Here's my experience with the Legend....I took it to the park....turned it on.....changed the frequency to M1, (it went to M3 after an update)....and then started swinging.

I found this today with my Legend after digging garbage for 40 minutes. I do not know much about the tones, the ground balancing or anything else, but I can turn it on and pair up my HP's. Somebody else make the comment above it's all about tones....I agree 100 percent. And a solid VDI # is good too....I have about 2 hours now in the field with the Legend.

Steve

 

[SSuper]

Nice. Metal composition and ID?

 

[mdsteve]

Unsure at this time....going to the jewelry store tomorrow to find out.

 

[Odanscoils]

Here's my experience with the Legend....I took it to the park....turned it on.....changed the frequency to M1, (it went to M3 after an update)....and then started swinging.

I found this today with my Legend after digging garbage for 40 minutes. I do not know much about the tones, the ground balancing or anything else, but I can turn it on and pair up my HP's. Somebody else make the comment above it's all about tones....I agree 100 percent. And a solid VDI # is good too....I have about 2 hours now in the field with the Legend.

Steve

Nice one. Congratulations.

 

[SSuper]

No marks/stamps?