New sovereign user tip

[speekergeek]

This may be helpful to someone eventually
I was using my sovereign today in a local park, cleaning out the trash basically. and i got a faint signal, just for S&G I fiddled with the knobs to see what did what, well i turned up the threshold a bit and the signal vanished, so here it is, too loud a threshold, you miss the faint ones. from now on i will run with a veerrrrrry faint threshold. this is in all metals by the way. in disc mode i think it doesn't matter, corrections anyone?

by the way, the target was a small button at about 6"

[hicountry]

Mike........I usedto hunt with no TH and didn't miss much with the Sov. My hearing is not the best so I turned it down to where I could not hear it. Someone with normal hearing might have but the Sov TH tone is something that will drive you up a wall....Jest my opinion..Did you ever get a meter?. HH......Bill

[GaryC/SanBdno]

Speekergeek/Bill, Zman did a modification on my machine. Put in a switch to change from hunting on threshold to the quiet mode. Cuts the noise and only lets through the good stuff. So far so good. Nice to hunt without all that distraction. GaryC/SanBdno.

[speekergeek]

I just turn the threshold down to the point where it is hardly audible, doesn't bother me a bit. I made my own meter with a cheap multimeter, it is bright yellow ;D but it works very well, haven't used it much though. I really just dig 85% of signals i get, in certain places i notch out pulltabs and dig everything else. but most of the time i dig everything. I hate thosesafety seals that come on certain juices, they have foil on them, and i love me a good low, solid, foil tone. i thought that for sure today TWICE i had a gold ring just by the sound. but NooooOOOOooo....... darn kids leaving junk for me to find. I love the sov though, it is a fantastic machine.

[speekergeek]

today i was detecting in a local park, and i got a faint but solid silver/copper signal, the signal repeated in the same spot in both all metals and in disc mode. so i proceed to dig.... and dig..... and dig. soon i was up to my elbow and pulling out nothing but rocks (chunks of old asphalt) and dirt. frustrated i decided to cut a huge gaping hole in the grass, my hole went from about 4 inch diameter to about 8-9". then magically the signal dissapeared. well a full 2 inches from my pinpoint spot was the culprit, a rusty thingamabob 5 or so inches deep about the size of a 22 bullet. how in the @#$% does this happen. I spent 20 minutes toiling and sweating in the sun hoping to pull out some silver. live and learn!

[berkeley bottle boy]

I hope you scanned the hole after you piled the dirt back in just to be sure... Thats the curse of pointy metal: the pointy tip condenses those magnetic field lines and whoosh that spot is suddenly the hot "conductor".