I ONLY GET LOUD TONES/WHY?

[bergie]

Everyone talks on here about quiet tones. I have never gotten a quiet tone either with or without headphones. I always get a loud tone and I've dug things at lots of different depths. I use a Radio Shack (Bounty Hunter) detector. I could afford a much better one, but I like the simple settings and easy use and I've found tons of great stuff. To me it's the location and the research and not so much the detector. I could be wrong, but I am finding a ton of good stuff when I find a good site. So, why do you think I am not getting quiet signals on deeper things? Even if it's the case that my detector doesn't go as deep, I should get quiet tones on things at the edge of whatever the depth range is on my detector.

 

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[warsawdaddy]

Do your headphones match your detector,i.e.,stereo to stereo,or mono to mono?

 

[bergie]

Not sure about that. Explain the difference. Thanks.

 

[bergie]

I do--all metal all the time. I don't dig every tone though. Would rather cover more area.

 

[czman]

Slow down your coil swing and cover the ground about one half your coil size forward...and use low disc or none...may be too fast coil swing...hard to say without seeing your detector being used...Stop look and think about what is going on while you are hunting and what you are doing...change things around while you are hunting and see if anything changes...HH...Don

 

[Ocean7]

you cannot hear the whispers due to hearing loss
or headphones cannot reproduce such low signals
or detector has one tone if it gets a signal
or detector cannot go deep enough to get a low tone
or aliens are blocking all low tones and sending them to onionhead's detector *L*

 

[Lowbatts]

The 250 Ace has three tone ID and 5 pre-programmed hunt modes. If you are only getting one tone check your programming. The machine is also supposed to have some notch disc. Make sure nothing is notched out. If you are getting all three tones only at a high volume level then turn your volume down.

Don't have a 250 and reading it's features I am still unaware of it's all metal operation. Does it only produce a singal tone id in all metal? I would think you could hear distinct differences in all metal but am not familar with the machine. Good luck!

 

[michinkae]

I assume that you own a Discovery detector from Radio Shack. I own the discovery 3300 and 1100, they are very old now and i use Whites and only whites now. Your MD only has three to four tone responses and runs a a completely quiet mode until a target is hit. A quiet hit is when your detector gets a deep target just in the range of breaking your edge of sound. This means that you need a detector that runs with a threshold hum. a constant hum that is broken or gets louder as you sweep over a target. The discovery is a good hobby detecor for a beginner, but if you are a serious coin hunter you need a detector than runs with a threshold tone instead of a quiet running detector that beeps when a target comes into range. An expert detecorist will learn to hunt using their ears. When a deep target is passed over, the threshold hum is disrupted only slightly. You have to train your ears to pick up on this. A discovery from radio shack isnt meant for any serious coin hunting. Threshold hum is essential to deep coin hunting. Until i switched to a detector with threshold I was missing a lot of things. So in short, your detector is not designed for this feature. I recommend the MXT or XLT from whites.

 

[jeff of pa]

Your Swinging TOO FAST

 

[bergie]

Thanks for all the feedback. By the way, even though it's a lower end detector, it still locates da good stuff. Here are my silver finds, including two Barber halfs, and a few other good non-silvers (oldest being 1740s copper halfpenny). All these found just since June of last year...

 

[weldermark]

i got the same detector, i think if you learn on one like this, when you upgrade your skill's will be well tuned.nice find's



mark

 

[Lowbatts]

Don't know what I was screwing up there posting info on the ACE 250, a lot of posts from BH and Garrett users lately. So I'm dumb as a bag of rocks, so sue me! Anyhow, back to topic, you're making those kind of finds and wondering if you're machine is working right?!? Nice digs and may that machine scream in your ear all day!

 

[OnionRings]

You want some help?

The BH your using will give you high tones on good targets right? The quite tones with your detector sound like good targets but they're smaller meaning quite tones not as strong. You must listen to your detector when you swing and hear just a click or a faint tone stop and try to locate it this is your "quite signal."

The tone on a swallow target is Strong the same tone will occur when it is deep but will give you a smaller signal.

I realized this when I was checking my butt!!!

Onion

 

[spotz]

As Robbin Williams said in Good Morning Viet Nam, " I don't care what you play! Just play it LOUD!" Beep on my friend! As long as you are having success, be happy. Everything about your MD skills will improve with LOTS & LOTS of time swinging that MD over targets. Spotz

 

[mvSWAT]

I have a Treasure Hunter not a Bounty Hunter...but on mine in All Metal mode I only get one tone, I like to use Discrimination where I can select all metals and then I get different tones accordingly.

 

[Davy R]

One way to find out if your machine is capable of giving you a faint signal on a deep target, is to pre bury accurately a coin at ever increasing depths. This is fiddly and time consuming, but this method should give you the answer one way or the other. Take into account the advice above, slow swing speed down. use all settings etc and write down your findings at each depth level. If you have not done this type of testing with your machine, doing so can only improve your detecting slkills and answer your question once and for all. Good luck with your detecting and well done on an excellent bunch of finds.

Davy R.

 

[bergie]

Thanks to all for the feedback. I thin preburying things is a good idea first to see how deep it will go and also to hear what it sounds like at various depths. Meanwhile, I hope to get out today and find something through what is left of the snow (some areas have no snow too).

 

[Spiff]

Your Radio-Shack-labelled Bounty Hunter is a far better detector than some of the offerings from Alert and Micronta that Radio Shack offered in the past. I have an inexpensive White's that operates differently from yours...
The White's emits an 'analog' tone that varies in volume and 'color' (not frequency) depending on the target type and depth. Good headphones and a 'feel' for the tones is helpful. I believe the 3-tone Bounty Hunter's have circuitry that latches onto a signal, determines which category it belongs in (low/medium/high) and sends a constant signal to the headphones/speaker indicating the find. There is no loud, no soft, no 'color', just a steady volume of one of the three tones. A quarter at 1" will sound off as loud as a dime at 6". I don't think high-end headphones or becoming accustomed to the nuances of the tones is a requirement with that sort of circuitry. A model with a depth indicator ought to compensate for the lack of being able to hear 'soft' versus 'hard' hits. I could be wrong, but think that's the way those detectors work.