Threshold Noise Tiring Me Out Sometimes.

[yellowmellow]

Hi all just wanting to know if there's a detector that does not have that annoying mozzie threshold noise and its just a simple beep when ever there is a target I find threshold noise is tiring on the ears and tiring on the body too. Is there such a thing?

Ps was up in gt today I'm sold on the 12 inch evo round coil its a ripper of a coil in my opinion its the best I was getting tiny ball pellets a foot deep was clear as a bell and its has great clarity on targets. my threshhold was smooth (but annoying mozzie noise) just on the cusp of chattery too so I feel I have the right set up all I need to do is find the yellow stuff it is possible just need to spend more time on the ground and show some patience and make some effort

ill definitely be back in 2 weeks time to try out some old areas I used to go

 

[grubstake]

It sounds like you need to experiment with Bogene's Settings and see whether you can get them to work well for you:
https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/1033-bogenes-settings/

 

[The Big B1]

A lot of the other detector brands I've seen in videos (Fishers, Garrett, etc) use a buzzing tone to indicate a target and don't seem to have constant threshold noise.

You can of course turn the threshold down on a ML machine till its quiet, but it's a trade off of possibly missing deep faint signals. You could also use one of those audio amplifiers/enhancers to try an filter out the noise.

 

[grubstake]

A lot of the other detector brands I've seen in videos (Fishers, Garrett, etc) use a buzzing tone to indicate a target and don't seem to have constant threshold noise.

That's when discrimination is being used, so that only possibly desirable targets are heard. You'd miss plenty of gold by doing that.

 

[BigWave]

Just change the tone so that it's not so objectionable.

 

[silver]

FBH and if that don't fix it try Aerogaurd lol.
I'm only coinshooting, so use threshold for width more than depth.... gives high speed with great results.
Hope you find a big deep one ! :goldnugget:

 

[Swinging & digging]

Are you using headphones?
If you are try loudspeaker.

 

[Syndyne]

It can get tedious for sure, particularly on those high EMI days. You will definitely get used to it after a bit of time. :Y:

Back when I first started out detecting I'd get the sensation of still hearing the threshold whistle after I stopped swinging or when trying to get to sleep. I used to run the external speaker fairly loudly on the GPX back then, but after switching to quality headphones several years ago I haven't had it happen since.

Cheers,
Shauno

 

[Jarrod84]

Try changing the tone. For some reason a lot of people turn it up and listen to it squealing away all day. I run mine low, nice and mellow easier on the ears.
Otherwise the QED doesnt really have a threshold and is much more of a beep and dig detector.

 

[Moneybox]

That's what I missed when I swapped the Garrett ATX for a GPX4500. The Garrett ran very smooth and quiet until it came across a genuine target. From day one the Minelab annoyed me with its continual chatter from various sources. The Garrett also found my biggest and deepest nugget, a 35g piece at about 400mm in rich red soil. However when it comes to tiny little bits the 4500 wins every time. I could adjust the Garrett to have a barely detectable threshold and it remained constant. If I adjust the Minelab down to that level it continues to chatter to some extent although since I've got more used to it I've found the Commander coils can be run pretty quiet as well.

 

[Guest]

Gday

If you run without the threshold you will miss gold for sure, the threshold is supposed to be there and should be set at a just audible and stable level to suit your hearing, as suggested lowering the tone will help firstly to make the sound less fatiguing and also be of benefit to older detectorists who can recognize lower toned responses as apposed to higher tone responses better, as your hearing diminishes with age or from damage in your work environment causing some industrial deafness.

Without a properly set threshold you have no reference point to aid you in recognizing feint iffy responses, as many responses from deep or very small targets may only be a waver the threshold that will pull you up and make you investigate it, the threshold has to be set basically so you can recognise the break in it which is the response back to the detector from the target, if it is a big target it will easily stand out a bit like like it does when you detect coins in benign ground but in hotter goldfields soils the detector has to also deal with the mineralization and this can also make the threshold waver at times as you know, this is the very reason why you pass the coil over a target from different directions to see if you get a repeatable signal response so you can decide whether to dig it or not, this is the most common factor that is not recognised straight away from new detector operators, not all gold targets will jump out at you, in actual fact many are vague responses and its only experience that will make your recognise it for what it is, your finds will improve if you take your time and learn to recognise what the detector is telling you, and as they say go low and slow.

My advice is Tim, read your owners manual and take in what it tells you in relation to how the tone and threshold operate and why, adjusting them on the Gpx 4500 is a simple task and only requires a quick adjustment in the menu, detecting for gold is a learning experience and after 35 years of it I am still learning and listening to what others are saying as we all have different experiences, take in what you are being told and run with it as there are no magic answers to your questions! you just have to do the hard yards and walk the walk, I have done many thousands of hours on the ground and many thousands of klms on the road, and I do get consistant gold every year, but of course some years are better than others but thats just the nature of the beast, but its no accident and I am by no means a lucky tin *** prospector but I am definitely a determined one and will put in the hours as thats what it takes, time on the ground is relevant to what you will get out of it.

cheers

stayyerAU

 

[Heatho]

Sounds like the threshold tone from Minelab gold detectors can cause listening fatigue over long periods of detecting. The only way to stop listening fatigue is to to have a short break, once the ears are fatigued it's probably counter productive to keep going without a break.

 

[Jarrod84]

If its chattering then you haven't got your settings right. Lower the stabilizer #, lower gain, slower motion setting, audio quiet etc.

 

[casper]

My WHITES GMZ has silent search, meaning that it only beeps on a target. It's basically a VLF coin shooter but running at 50mhz for gold sensitivity.

casper