Tahoegold...
Just want to say there are all kinds of ways to find treasure with this this thing and it seems you have hit on a good one.
Just to remind you there are still others and I have talked about this before but this is the way I do it because setting that thing at one area and digging all that beeps still drives me crazy so for new users this bears repeating.
Whatever way is best for you is the right way, this is just my way.
This way, and I use this on the Mojave now too, is how I prefer to do it because I think I have a little better chance of hitting not only coins but other quality stuff which is usually my goal.
I call this the high percentage method and I sure can miss stuff doing it this way but since I started doing it like this I believe I have found more jewelry than doing it my old way when I dug a ton more.
I usually hunt low with the disc at all metal or not much higher than the I in iron and I don't set the disc on one place nor do I hunt low and thumb the disc up to the fade out point but instead I go past that point until silence then thumb back down and listen closely.
Most targets that "come in" noisy...pops, crackles and whatever else before the signal solidifies and sounds clear and true I usually avoid, those that just appear, come in solid and clear without much noise I dig every time no matter where they come in.
I hunt in some very trashy sites and don't have much patience to dig a ton of trash anymore but I love finding precious metals so I just evolved into this style over time.
As I said I could miss things and I still dig some signals that might come in a bit noisy, (especially around the nickel area), if they sound pretty good and the sound triggers my digging instinct but most of the time I just stick to the solid stuff.
I can't tell you how well this has worked for me over the years but here are two examples.
This is a site that was new to me, a small park with a basketball court and one picnic pavilion.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=132026
I dug a bunch of trash that day because I always do hunting around those courts which are usually one of the trashiest kind of sites you can hunt on land but they are also one of the highest percentage sites for finding jewelry, also.
A pic of the trash I dug is in this thread but 98% of that trash was from around that court.
I found a bunch of coins and a few other things but no silver or gold and eventually I got tired near the end of this hunt and moved over to the picnic pavilion just as a change of scenery and was going to finish up there.
This was full of an insane amount of trash here too, foil, pop tops, tabs and other junk and I switched to this high percentage method to avoid most of that.
I dug a few trash items that came in solid, there are always some kinds of trash that do, but for the most part I passed on most signals until I hit this one.
Just as I described, it came in loud and clear and solid as I turned down the disc knob to the L in foil...no noise from that way or when I turned and hit it from 90 degrees either.
It wasn't foil or a small piece of can slaw but something much better...2.3 grams of 10k.
A couple years later I was deep into the F70 but decided to pull out the Compadre and hunt another extremely trashy area near another picnic pavilion in a different park to look for silver.
Another member took a long time deciding which detector to buy as his first and after several weeks and a million times changing his mind plus about a billion questions he finally settled on a Compadre.
To commemorate this I decided to mark this occasion with a special hunt and on this one the main goal was silver in any form I could find it.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=201661
I have had my jaw drop on several outings with my Compadre but this one I will always remember.
In an area I had scoured in the past I was hunting again using this high percentage method and I got a classic zincoln signal...solid as all heck thumbing down and the disc knob ended up pointing dead on at the 3:00 position.
There was also trash surrounding it close on 3 sides but even though I was using a 7" coil by moving that coil slowly this thing hit hard like a silver coin...a big silver coin.
I thought for sure a lowly zincoln but nope, wrong again...and I mean wrong in a good way.
To this day this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest silver ring I have ever found and here it is sitting on a dime which is actually thicker.
Point three grams of 925...I still remember and smile when I think about what happened that day.
There are so many legends about this one and so many almost unbelievable experiences many have had but if you swing one long enough you come to find out they are all true.
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Coins, keys, etc. feel solid.
), I hunt with my Compadre set in All Metal at the start of a hunt and then thumb the dial into the Iron range and sometimes up to the "F" in Foil if trash is extremely bad and/or I'm getting tired and patients is running out. 
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