AT Pro Settings...What Do You Use?

Big Bear said:

It has been interesting to see this old post brought back to life these part couple weeks. Thanks for the advice and the interest! Since the original post I have logged likely near 100 hours of use and found that indeed Pro had been the way to go. I have learned to not discriminate anything and run a notch or two from full sensitivity most of the time. Ground balancing is a must though I admit I occasionally will detune a couple of numbers down. I am still using the original coil but am considering purchasing a smaller one due to the heavy iron targets in my normal hotspots.

I think I managed several hundred dollars of clad this past year with little silver. A bit of jewelry and some interesting other historic items. Currently much snow and frozen conditions but hoping by end of February the season might begin here in Eastern Oregon. Hoping the nice people at Garrett will give my machine a thorough once over as I began to suspect some falsing late last summer. Going on two weeks now with no word from them. Hoped for better but expected several weeks.

I'm quite envious of those who can continue to get outdoors during the winter months. Happy hunting to all and thanks for the continued tales and advice!

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Dark Chameleon said:

I go pro zero, id to 38 and sense to two bars from top on sports fields and parks but full sense in woods and fields, iron audio on (the speed it gives you the sound, you can tell if its iron in something or next to it).

In dry sand id ground balance then take 5 off manually to give it that extra bounce, and a little noise coming through.

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LovestheShiny! said:

Going into the 6th year with my AT Pro. Love this detector. My settings are very similar to many above... Pro Zero, Full Sensitivity, nothing discriminated or notched out, Iron audio off. Ground balance at about 80-82 for my soil. So simple, just turn it on and start detecting.

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Gauntlet said:

Possibly silly question while waiting for mine to arrive.

So you're basically running in all metal mode, but with iron audio off, you just don't hear the iron?

And if "yes", this is to gain a slight depth advantage?

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LovestheShiny! said:

@ Gauntlet - Not sure about the depth thing, I never thought of that. Kinda hard to explain, but running the AT Pro the way I do with iron audio off, you still definitely hear the iron, it is more of a grunt or almost a low burp like sound. Easy to hear, fairly easy to tell you are over a bottle cap cause you will get the grunt along with the high tone. Also tells you that you may be over a good target with iron close by, in that case if deeper signal I will dig it. If I remember correctly, with iron audio "on" you do hear the iron as a low tone, not a grunt. Having iron audio on makes the sheer quantity of tones too busy for me. So yes, you still hear the iron with iron audio off.

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Gauntlet said:

Possibly silly question while waiting for mine to arrive.

So you're basically running in all metal mode, but with iron audio off, you just don't hear the iron?

And if "yes", this is to gain a slight depth advantage?

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LovestheShiny! said:

@ Gauntlet - Not sure about the depth thing, I never thought of that. Kinda hard to explain, but running the AT Pro the way I do with iron audio off, you still definitely hear the iron, it is more of a grunt or almost a low burp like sound. Easy to hear, fairly easy to tell you are over a bottle cap cause you will get the grunt along with the high tone. Also tells you that you may be over a good target with iron close by, in that case if deeper signal I will dig it. If I remember correctly, with iron audio "on" you do hear the iron as a low tone, not a grunt. Having iron audio on makes the sheer quantity of tones too busy for me. So yes, you still hear the iron with iron audio off.

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graybeard said:

With iron audio off you don't hear as much of the iron.

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