longbow62
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I read a lot about folks turning the gain up for better depth, but when is it better to turn it down? Is it better to lower the gain on sites with high amounts of nonferrous trash?
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So my thoughts were that with gain up really high that the detector might not separate or unmask as well because you might potentially be sounding off trash targets around good targets. I don't have a lot of experience with adjusting for best detection.
So the other day I went to a spot I had hit a couple of times already and inadvertently deleted setting that I had used the time before. I had set up from a youtube video some settings another person was running. So since I didn't remember the exact settings I had to just use the default settings in the program. So basically I just turned on and ran. I seemed to find way more stuff than what I had been using the suggested settings. Way more clad dimes than I had the previous outing. I know the default gain was 70 and I had been running 90. It was not just the gain setting as there were some numbers notched out. Also this was running default 14khz instead of 5khz.
Lower frequencies don't get bothered by EMI as bad either.
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Where I live the opposite is true.
beephead