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What tones do you run on your F75 or 70?
- Thread starter mudpuppy
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Happy New year to you mr mud. For old coin hunting, I like 3h and 4h tones. The high tone quickly alerts me to check the target more carefully. Although like the woods I hunt in the winter, I do check out mid tones as a lot of good targets fall into the mid tone range. On certain sites that can have older none silver coins I use 4h a lot and dig the higher two tones. By using 3h, I have dug a lot of co-located silver right next to some piece of trash. When I get the mixed tone, I try and zero in on the high tone tic and have been rewarded many times. I feel I get more information when running 3h and 4h and nickels come in with a high tone, as well. HH jim tn
John 'n' W.Va
Active member
Sometimes the Delta Pitch is too much for my brain. I can't process information as well in my older age and get headaches easier. In the woods or battlefield I like 1. In parks I like 3H.
C'mon! Theres gotta be somebody else out there that runs DP! 
I honestly dont know how I could hunt without it! That and the proportional audio feature... You can tell a dime from a Q and a Q from a half, just by the tones..you can hear mutidenom spills and stacks clearly, I've been fooling around with a different detector that only has 4 tones, and its very frustrating to not have that DP feature, especially in the dark when you cant see the screen.
Mud
I honestly dont know how I could hunt without it! That and the proportional audio feature... You can tell a dime from a Q and a Q from a half, just by the tones..you can hear mutidenom spills and stacks clearly, I've been fooling around with a different detector that only has 4 tones, and its very frustrating to not have that DP feature, especially in the dark when you cant see the screen.Mud
I'll run DP sometimes in the wood chips. I don't find it as expressive tonally as I would like. I run mostly 3h since I am so used to that with my CZ6a. In the really trashy areas, I go to motion all metal since it helps me separate the targets even better than in discriminate mode, and I'll meter watch.
tvr
tvr
Ok...lets forget about big gold rings for a moment...so we got zincs in the low 60's which have a unique sound unto themselves, a rotten one could be in the high 50's..brass (chucky cheese size) tokens are steady 67, and then we got the pre 82 copper pennys that hit 73 ish, as do clad dimes, depending on their orientation and depth, sometimes slightly higher, up to 75...then we got the silver dimes, canadien pennys, wheaties and rings that hit around 76-81 then the Q's at 84-86, then the modern dollar coins at 86-87, and then the Halfs at 92 all day long. Lets just forget the zincs for a moment..even with my bad shot out ears, I can hear the low 70's, high 70's, low 80's and the 92 distinctly different in DP...as far as the copper pennys and dimes being so close together on the scale, its a crapshoot as to the audio ID, but the more a guy finds, the tight proportional audio feature comes in to play...a copper penny just sounds "bigger" than a d...regarding the modern dollar coin over a clad Q, I cant quite tell the diff in tone...I dont see how a person can hunt quickly if every high tone could be a pre 82 penny, or a D or a Q, or a dollar, or a Half..or even a Nickle for you 3h or 4h guys...is it a matter of what you started out hunting with and are confident in it?
Mud
Mud
The key word in your post is "QUICKLY." Most of us using multi tones aren't out to stab a pile of coins as quickly as possible. And don't take that statement the wrong way, there is nothing wrong with that. We are, though, hunting slower striving to cover every square inch of ground and decipher the whispers, tic's blahs and grunts in our quests for that one old coin still hiding beside some piece of junk. And, "its a matter of what you started out hunting with and are confident in it?" CZ 6a, CZ 3d, F 75 and F 75 LTD = 20 years of multi tones for me, anyway. On the one hand, admittedly, I have never given D P tone much of a chance. And on the other hand, I probably won"t. 
You have it down pat and it works great for you. Why change? HH jim tn
You have it down pat and it works great for you. Why change? HH jim tnI'm here to learn, as well as entertain! I thought perhaps it might be fun to try for some old silver coins this year, while my clad sites get replenished..It will be a whole new way of hunting for me, going slow, paying attention to the proper machine set up, digging holes!.thanks!
Mud
I thought perhaps it might be fun to try for some old silver coins this year, while my clad sites get replenished..It will be a whole new way of hunting for me, going slow, paying attention to the proper machine set up, digging holes!.thanks!Mud
mudpuppy said:
DP on my camo LTD is not what I'd call distinct. It is kind of hollow, tinny and hissy across the pitch range and not something that makes listening what I consider enjoyable. I'll use it to try something different and to reaffirm thoughts about it. The Excal I have has a fuller, easier to listen to and easier to distinguish tone across the pitch range, but recovers so slowly from masking and iron nulls that I only find it really useful at the beach and not in a lot of trash. If the LTD's delta pitch had better audio qualities, maybe I would like it more. Maybe it has never been right and I should send it in!
Cheers,
tvr
Cajuncoinhunter
Moderator
1 tone All metal Sens 95
azsh07
Member
Depends on what I am detecting. For fields and woods where I need depth but do not care about ID...then two tones. I have used the 75 and the T2 since the day they were released years ago. I found that there was a slight depth difference between DP and two tones. Still holds up today. Not a lot but I would say a real 1/2" deeper.
That was true for my F75 all three versions as well as the T2 and T2Se and my F70.
Now..with that said...I don't solely use 2 tones. In celar holes or any kind of trash I will opt for more tones. If the trash is bad and alot of it is in the mid ID range then i will go for DP and dig those high tones or tones that do not sound like the most common trash. A good example is can slaw...or maybe tin from a house where so much is around I am not digging every non ferrous target. I will go for the odds in those cases and run DP. Depth is not the main goal anyway in thos cases.
Also old parks I will use DP mode....so it depends for me as I hunt many different types of colonial areas.
Scott
That was true for my F75 all three versions as well as the T2 and T2Se and my F70.
Now..with that said...I don't solely use 2 tones. In celar holes or any kind of trash I will opt for more tones. If the trash is bad and alot of it is in the mid ID range then i will go for DP and dig those high tones or tones that do not sound like the most common trash. A good example is can slaw...or maybe tin from a house where so much is around I am not digging every non ferrous target. I will go for the odds in those cases and run DP. Depth is not the main goal anyway in thos cases.
Also old parks I will use DP mode....so it depends for me as I hunt many different types of colonial areas.
Scott