mn90403 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Chase, Thanks for adding a lot to Steve's forums. I think that Flakmagnet could lend us his tone experience here also. It is topics and 'solutions' like this that help me to think about more optimal setups also. I'm glad we have a place to discuss it. Perhaps there are other places but I don't Facebook or go to other treasure sites where tweaking is the primary point of discussion. I just happened to remember my beginnings with the 800 and how it took me a while to HEAR what the Equinox was saying. Mitchel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Very late to comment here but here is my two cents. I always use 50 tones but leave it at the default pitch setting. I do lower the ferrous tone volume from 12 to 4 however, which makes ferrous a very low level puttering sound to my ear. I like hearing the ferrous as it alerts me to potential target fields but I don't like getting beat up by it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 On 12/8/2019 at 1:53 PM, Steve Herschbach said: Very late to comment here but here is my two cents. I always use 50 tones but leave it at the default pitch setting. I do lower the ferrous tone volume from 12 to 4 however, which makes ferrous a very low level puttering sound to my ear. I like hearing the ferrous as it alerts me to potential target fields but I don't like getting beat up by it. I too drop the ferrous tone for the same reasons (audio fatigue is a thing). I found that by raising the pitch I get those more flutey high tones similar to an Explorer, but hearing is so subjective, that ultimately you have to find your audio comfort zone. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 I agree but unfortunately I have high frequency hearing loss. It’s all about what we can hear and everyone has different ears and different audio processing circuits in their brain. You can have great hearing but still be tone deaf. I had a hearing test recently and my ability to hear sound is identical in both ears, but my ability to comprehend words is lower in my right ear. So my audio processing in my left brain (our brains are cross-wired) is deficient. Interesting stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Interesting. I should get a hearing test too. I remember taking a date to an AC/DC concert in Sacramento in the 80's and we managed to get right in front of a three story speaker stack at the front of the concert (back in the days of general admission). It was so loud that I had ringing in my ears for days, it actually scared me, figured I was going to go deaf, but after several days the ringing cleared up. I'm sure it probably did some hearing damage, that and all the other loud music I listened to as a kid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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