test garden

coldmidget · Feb 7, 2012

i made a test garden. put nickel, dime, penny, quarter, lead weight, silver charm, gold ring, ss ring and a pull tab. i could hear a slight diff in the gold ring( i think). but all else sounds the same. i just put on ground didnt bury it. is it just my ears that cant tell diff? i had on factury settings. does setting affect sound? im a little confused. trying to learn sounds of my whites df pi. i know time and practice is what it takes but all sound the same? any advice would help.

Crumble · Feb 7, 2012

Objects of the same size generally sound the same. So all those targets will sound the same with a PI for the most part. With practice you can tell the size and shape of an object, and will know when you have a small coin/ring sized object, but can't really tell targets apart by their conductivity.

Maybe the pros with the PI can hear more in a beep than me though.

dewcon · Feb 8, 2012

Im not a PI guy, but .... if it were me id learn the few trash targets that give me the worst problems first like bottle caps and bobbie pins. I know how deep i have to dig a bottle cap even with the Xcal. A test garden is good if its cleaned of all metal and can help with verifying your machine, but is most effective for mineralized testing with tone/disc machines. In your case air testing would do just as well.

Dew

Cfmct · Feb 8, 2012

coldmidget said:
i made a test garden. put nickel, dime, penny, quarter, lead weight, silver charm, gold ring, ss ring and a pull tab. i could hear a slight diff in the gold ring( i think). but all else sounds the same. i just put on ground didnt bury it. is it just my ears that cant tell diff? i had on factury settings. does setting affect sound? im a little confused. trying to learn sounds of my whites df pi. i know time and practice is what it takes but all sound the same? any advice would help.

The DF has 1 tone only but there is subtle differences to the tone.. gold will be a smoother clean tone... paying attention to the size is more important dig small narrow targets... junk targets like bobbiepins and wire can have a broken scratchy tone, iron with be a wide long tone... picture in your mind the width of the tone and if its wide its most likely trash. bottlecaps can be a rough areound the edges tone... learning the machine does not come overnight

coldmidget · Feb 8, 2012

thx for the advice. been wondering about some of those long tones. had 1 last week was like a buried treasure chest 1 ft wide 1 ft long. i didnt even bother with it. just didnt seem right. i probly missed that pirate treasure chest lol.

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