Tone depth indicator?

[Southwind]

OK correct me if I'm wrong, but it sure seems to me the Racers tone pitch gets higher the shallower the target is. If I put a quarter on top the ground I'll get a very high pitched tone but I'f I hit one several inches deep the pitch is lower. I love this concept. That is exactly what I was saying I wish the E-Trac had. You can tell the depth of the target by the pitch of the tone so no need to look at a display. You can tell when a target is on top the ground by the ray gun sound or a high pitched squeal.

 

[TabWhisperer]

You must be in two tone mode where it uses VCO. Page 10 of the manual describes the audio of the modes.

 

[squirrel1]

Something else too. Start upping the gain this depth pitch is not as reflective to actual depth of target. 70 gives good variance, 90 i.e not as much.

 

[JFlynn]

Ah grasshopper learning quick. Terry a lot of machines use VCO. The Racer it is very pronounced in VCO in 2 tone. You don't have it in 3 tone. 3 tone is where you will get the huge amount of blending and rolling of sounds as the coil passes over objects like I metioned the ETrac has in a previous post months ago. You need to be in very heavy trash and it will make all kinds of sounds and then when it hits a good metal target it stops you in your tracks. That's why I switched to 3 tone per I don't have to watch the TID while detecting. In 2 tone every high tone, everything above 40 on TID you have to look. In 3 you can hunt with your ears then second check with TID when it sounds right. 3 tone for me also alerts me to stop and check quicker as my ears cannot hear the faint furtherest away from the coil tones of VCO.

 

[TabWhisperer]

What jflynn said. I noticed the 3 tone about blew my ears out on good targets. I had to turn the volume down on my phones.