Fortunehunter
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Can anyone tell me how many different tones the Quattro has or does it just have a continuous tone from low pitch to a high pitch.
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Number of Quattro tones
- Thread starter Fortunehunter
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backslyder
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It depends if your in the Ferrous or Conductive tone mode. This can be achieved by the cross-saving technique, which I only found in Andy Sabisch's book Mastering the Quatro.
Fortunehunter
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I fully understand the cross saving technique, but I don't understand how this can make any difference to the number of tones. Whether you are in Ferrous or Conductive audio, it shouldn't make any difference to the number of tones, it simply changes which tone you get based on the targets properties, doesn't it?
I simply wish to know if the Quattro has for example, 10 distinct and individual tones, or does it have a continuously level of increment from a low to a high pitch tone?
The reason I ask is because if you knew that the detector had a fixed number of tones then it may be easier to learn each of them.
From the lack of replies, I'm suspecting no-one really knows the answer.
I simply wish to know if the Quattro has for example, 10 distinct and individual tones, or does it have a continuously level of increment from a low to a high pitch tone?
The reason I ask is because if you knew that the detector had a fixed number of tones then it may be easier to learn each of them.
From the lack of replies, I'm suspecting no-one really knows the answer.
The Ferrous tones are liner. The conductive tones are not. In conductive the targets -1 to -10 increase in audio tone like a letter V. Ferrous is a straight line -10 to40 on a slanted angle. I know there appears to be more tones in ferrous then conductive to me but my hearing is not the best. That's what happens when you get old 
: :. In ferrous for example you can get 3 different tones on a nickle. War nickle,higher tone then regular nickle,regular nickle higher tone then the buff. The 3 nickles read different numbers also. Just depends on the corrosion and how much of the material of the coin that has leached out due to being buried. A Canadian quarter has a lower tone then a regular quarter and a silver quarter. A sliver dime, clad dime/copper penny tones are different in ferrous also. The best way to explain all this is just get some silver coins and different value coins, and some iron trash, I have a Safari, open up the machine to all metal in ferrous and all metal in conductive and you will see what I am trying to explain. I will go out on a limb here and say the Ferrous has 50 different tones and I don't think the Conductive has the same amount and I am not sure of that. I cross save cond. to Relic and to all metal. cross saved Ferrous to Coins and to coins/jewelry. I set up different notches for the different Modes except all metal and I run them wide open in cond and ferrous. I have a SE also and have had all the different Explorers since they came out. The Quattro I like very much as you can switch between the different modes on the iffy targets and it really helps out in the iron trash being able to switch between the ferrous and the conductive modes. That is the only reason I bought the Safari to hunt in the iron trash and it has a faster processor then the quattro and the processor is just as fast as my SE if not faster. I have not seen a inch of depth difference in the SE and the Safari. I have flagged targets and they both seem to have the same depth to me. If you crank up the gain on the SE it does see the smaller targets better. That is a different subject though. Hope this helps some. HH Jerry aka Tinfoil
: :. In ferrous for example you can get 3 different tones on a nickle. War nickle,higher tone then regular nickle,regular nickle higher tone then the buff. The 3 nickles read different numbers also. Just depends on the corrosion and how much of the material of the coin that has leached out due to being buried. A Canadian quarter has a lower tone then a regular quarter and a silver quarter. A sliver dime, clad dime/copper penny tones are different in ferrous also. The best way to explain all this is just get some silver coins and different value coins, and some iron trash, I have a Safari, open up the machine to all metal in ferrous and all metal in conductive and you will see what I am trying to explain. I will go out on a limb here and say the Ferrous has 50 different tones and I don't think the Conductive has the same amount and I am not sure of that. I cross save cond. to Relic and to all metal. cross saved Ferrous to Coins and to coins/jewelry. I set up different notches for the different Modes except all metal and I run them wide open in cond and ferrous. I have a SE also and have had all the different Explorers since they came out. The Quattro I like very much as you can switch between the different modes on the iffy targets and it really helps out in the iron trash being able to switch between the ferrous and the conductive modes. That is the only reason I bought the Safari to hunt in the iron trash and it has a faster processor then the quattro and the processor is just as fast as my SE if not faster. I have not seen a inch of depth difference in the SE and the Safari. I have flagged targets and they both seem to have the same depth to me. If you crank up the gain on the SE it does see the smaller targets better. That is a different subject though. Hope this helps some. HH Jerry aka Tinfoil