Pitch & Full Tones

[Cliff490]

If you chose 2, 3, 4, or 5 tones and you set up the notches and the tone Hz's just as you want them, and then later decide you want to use Pitch Or Full Tones,   Will the notching/discrimination and tone sounds still be valid? I am still quite new to the D2 but have discovered I really like the sounds of Pitch and Full Tones and I see that Pitch is the only one that allows you to run a background threshold and that low background hum is something I need to help me concentrate on deep signals. I only have trashy hard hit parks to hunt in and so I need some extra discrimination my soil is mild and emi is seldom a problem.

Thanks    

[Chase Goldman]

Your tone selection will not affect your discrimination breakpoint (the point at which the lowest multi-tone or pitch converts to an iron volume grunt).  However, on full-tones, iron volume is only heard up to about a TID of 1 regardless of whether disc is set higher.  For example, if in full tones with disc set at 10 you will hear iron audio for all targets registering a TID of 1 or less.  Targets between 1 and 10 are silenced regardless of the iron audio setting, whereas in multi tones or pitch with disc at 10, all targets registering a TID of 10 or less will give an iron volume grunt.  It's a quirk only in full tones and hopefully will be addressed in a future update.  One you've saved your multi-tones tone breaks and notches in a custom program slot, you can change tones to pitch or full tones on the fly and your notches and disc will be preserved (and the notches will translate over when in full and pitch tones).  If you subsequently switch back to multi-tones, your custom tone breaks will still be saved from when you last saved them.

I like to save custom variants of a favorite custom program (e.g., Deep HC) with different tone setups like Deep HC Pitch, Deep HC 5 Tones and Deep HC Full Tones in adjacent custom program slots so that I can toggle between them using the plus/minus keys while "interrogating" an iffy target.  The differing way the target audibly responds in full tones vs. pitch can give me some insight on the nature of the target and can sometimes help differentiate between asymmetric junk like can slaw vs. round brass buttons or gold rings that all have similar mid-range target IDs.

HTH