Cheddar

park is my go to program for dirt. i drop my bcaps to 0 and run silencer at 0 or 1.

On 12/7/2022 at 2:02 PM, CPT_GhostLight said:

Congrats on the gold cross and thanks for your review of the 13" coil. Between yours and F350's reviews, I've pretty much decided to get one.

One a side note, you mentioned you ran Disc at 8 and Notch at 10 to eliminate coin masking. I know the Disc at 8 would make 06, 07, 08 sound off with the iron tone, but wouldn't the Notch at 10 just blank out 00-10, or is that the purpose?

On 12/7/2022 at 11:26 PM, Carolina said:

That is the purpose. It works on dimes and pennies but not with big iron. I only had dimes and pennies masked. The cross was not masked so I don’t know how it acts with gold. Also the big iron overwhelmed the software while using the 13” coil. Not sure about the 11”. Also this was my first spin with the 13” so please don’t hold my feet to the fire. I only posted my findings. I also post to try and help everyone. I guess I do have the option of just keeping things to myself. People here seem to be awfully hostile now that the new Minelab machines are out. Good luck to everybody no matter what your preference is.

looking for more info on this.... you're saying if you just discrim to 8 without notching to 10, that iron under 8 will come in as iron and mask higher TIDS? but if you notch up to 10 it will silence the iron and let the higher TIDS come through?

also ive been hunting a lot with magnetic rejected and starting to realize i may be getting some serious masking myself. hard to find good information on magnetic accept/reject. so any info on that would be appreciated!

i have been working a similar beach loaded with coins and iron. i have found beach sensitive to work the best. reactivity 2 to 2.5

you have to go slow and anything that chirps i go back over and tight wiggle. the signals are not clear at all but they have a certain sound that your brain will start to learn. of course iron can still fool you but not nearly as often as was the case with other detectors

well the good thing is the remote unhooks from the stem. so honestly just sit there on the couch or computer chair and mess with it. watch some videos and move along. no substitute for hands on experience.

On 1/28/2023 at 8:52 AM, parkgt said:

Why, do you only dig halfs and leave the quarters?

there have been a few instances where i have been digging in a lot of clad quarters and have popped out halves thinking they were quarters. when you are digging tons of clad, you tend to be a little less careful with the shovel.

long time nox user here. my go to on the d2 has been modified park. would love to check your program out if you're willing to share!

would love to see them fix the US silver TID's

quarters and halfs ring up the same numbers, and dollars are even lower!

would be nice to had a clue if you were digging a half or quarter. i know other machines have a significant gap in these coins.

i ordered the 9" with my deus2 with the plans of getting the 13" coil. well ive been waiting for it to come available! but im sure it'll be the right play.

15 hours ago, Carolina said:

I found some in Ukraine made for the 13” x 11”. I will let you know how they work. Delivery by tank and horse back so may be awhile.

interested to hear!

love it! makes perfect sense and TBH surprised i havent thought of or came across this before.

hopefully they can fix the pinpoint audio levels as well. either tone them down or add a volume adjustment. if you try to pinpoint a shallow target it will knock your ears off

i personally cant wrap my head around PWM. and full tones square seem to be broken, im not thrilled with the default hz for full tones. the max (998hz or whatever number it is) is really appealing which IMO should be used for the highest 99 tone. for now i am using a 5 tone program but would love to see a 6 or 7 tone customization option

37 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

Have you tried pitch audio?  I was a full tone "zealot" on the Deus 1 and switched to pitch audio with separate iron audio for discriminated ferrous.  Non-ferrous targets really pop (and give nuanced tonal distortion on non-round, non-ferrous targets like canslaw or big cans) and are easily differentiated from the iron audio grunts.  A quick glance at D2's relatively stable TIDs makes for a quick dig decision based on your target range(s) of interest (the simultaneous presence of iron grunts clues you in to potential ferrous TID down-averaging) and you can always further interrogate an iffy target with a diffent mode, or simply a different version of your core program with different audio or filters. Yes, more reliance on TID than pure audio but it has simply become second nature.

i have dabbled in it briefly but i hunt with my ears almost exclusively. so ive found that pitch just doesnt give me as much info as i'd like. im sure it has its time and place in a heavy iron site you're trying to pluck everything out of. ive been meaning to give it some more attempts and love. it would be nice if they had options to add more breaks up to say 10 breaks. not sure if that would essentially create more processing time and decrease performance.

15 hours ago, NCtoad said:

This almost exactly mirrors my thoughts on the D2.  I say almost because I clicked with deus the first time out.  It’s an absolute joy to swing with that 9” coil.  I became comfortable very quickly with the menu setup, writing and saving programs and the button layout.  (One thing I don’t like about the button layout is turning the pinpoint function on and off.   They should have made use of the same button to turn it on and off instead of having to switch.)

 

 I loved my nox.  It was my first really, really good and most expensive detector since I started detecting about 6 years ago. I used it since they first came out and thought I was doing well with it.  But since getting the D2 I’ve only had the nox out twice!   And both of those times it felt like a tank with the 11” coil and its tones sounded so foreign.  I couldn’t even remember how to ground balance it.   I had to look up the nox manual on my phone😂.  I don’t think I’ll sell my nox though.  It’s a great detector and makes a great back up detector.  I have the 6” inch coil on now, so it’s pretty light and easy to swing, but I still prefer the deus.  
 

About the wireless aspect.  I too became a little miffed about this when out in the woods detecting a spring.  I wanted to detect the bottom of the spring reservoir but as soon as I submerged my coil the detector quit. It took me a few seconds to figure out why!  However, I can see a real big advantage to not having a hardwired coil if I was ever to detect a crawl space or a cave or some other place where you might be on all fours.  You can just hold that lower shaft and swing it around like a wand.  Other than submerging the coil and losing the signal, I like the wireless coils.  

I like my deus so much that I hardly ever think about the manticore.  I am almost certain I won’t buy one, unless in a year or two’s time it’s really is out performing the D2.  But hopefully XP will keep updating the D2 and it’ll perform just as well or better than the manticore.  
 

 

 

nox user of 2000+ hours here. and this is completely spot on to my opinion on the deus2.

the only downfall to this machine is its not as good "wading" because of the antenna and the flex in the coil. I still use my nox for that. but the wireless feature for "dry land" detecting has way more PROS than that one CON. I am not sure ill be able to go back to a wired detector.

after swinging the d2 almost exclusively for 6+ months, the nox feels like a turd. i will say however, i do enjoy the full tones of the nox. the d2 full tones arent functioning properly and 5 tones just isnt enough to customize to my liking. that will hopefully be resolved with an update shortly.