Minelab Manticore Silver Coin Program By Tone Region - Metal Detecting

With this program I am using the Volume By Tone Bin to discriminate so I can still hear unwanted targets (including pull tabs & most zinc pennies) with a slightly higher pitch or in my demo as an iron tone. Hope this helps.

[@jamkpa]

Iffy....sooooo much better with this video redo!!! :) Thank you for understanding and reacting to it in such a positive way.

[@IffySignals]

Of course John. Appreciate the feedback, i remade it because of your comment. Sometimes i put out videos to try and help but forget that allot of people are approaching it as new to the machine and may not understand. Thx! Mike

[@donaldlee6699]

Iffy, enjoyed the porch time with you as always! Certainly, insight to the menu! Thanks!

[@IffySignals]

Hey Don! Thanks 👍

[@The1KMnO4]

Well done. Will be applying when mine arrives!

[@IffySignals]

Thx Walter 👍

[@DiggingItBack]

This is the first time I've seen a coin shooter program done this way. Thanks, Mike. I'm gonna give it a try 👍

[@IffySignals]

Welcome 👍

[@jimmymalone3494]

Thank you for sharing Mike.

[@IffySignals]

Thanks Jimmy!

[@dbeidesign]

The beauty of the Manticore

[@IffySignals]

Thanks!

[@DogtownTradingCo]

Very good info. Reminds me of the CTX programing. Thanks!

[@IffySignals]

Welcome 👍

[@ohdannyboyjustadiggin]

That is Awesome.. So much more you can tweak out with the manticore .. Thanks Man.. Peace

[@IffySignals]

Thx Danny!

[@GaryandtheGooseDetecting]

Thanks for the video ,great job .

[@IffySignals]

Thanks Gary!

[@IDigHistoryInIowa]

Good informative video. On my etrac I can hear the difference in a silver dime and a clad dime. Silver is much higher pitched. Sounds like on the manticore it’s the same sound. I’d say I can cherry pick more on my etrac I’ve used for 15 years.

[@IffySignals]

Thanks! I had the CTX and it dig have allot of info in the tones as well.

[@metaldetectingbuddy]

Greetings from West Yorkshire

[@IffySignals]

Greetings 👍 thanks for stopping by!

[@dougsnyder8963]

I’m just starting to use my new manticore and love this coin mode you showed. A few rookie questions: 1) Is that in General Terrain high conductor mode? 2) Once I set up the program you just showed, how do I save it as a favorite? Thanks for your help. Doug in NC

[@IffySignals]

Hi, regular General and you can save it as a favorite profile but will be there under general. The Manticore does not have custom slots to save multiple programs.

[@Buttondigger]

Thanks for sharing.

[@IffySignals]

Welcome Tex

[@BeachHunter2024]

I enjoyed this video, it explained very clearly how to set up the different zones. The only thing I want to know is that’s a great program for coins, but by doing that I’m eliminating tones for gold. I hunt 100% beaches in South Florida, and I want to hear tones for the gold rings and gold jewelry, how do I figure that into this program?

[@IffySignals]

Hi, definitely don’t use this for gold, small gold will ring a 1-2 vdi. Gold will be all over the low and mid range, better to leave it open.

[@thedoitalldad765]

Thanks for that info. Nice adjustability of the manticore. Question, can the D2 do the same?

[@IffySignals]

Hey Aaron, the D2 cannot adjust volume by tone bin as of right now but it can notch three different segments. You just cannot hear them like you can with the way i have this.

[@makeitwork2650]

Thanks That neat !

[@IffySignals]

Welcome 👍

[@thebountyfisher]

One thing I noticed (let's call it purely based on observation) is that when I tried to run this in the high conductor program, the nose of the coil was the area where you need to glide over the target, and if for some reason on your sweep, did not reach the middle nose area, you could hear a small threshold break, but it would be difficult to decipher if it was a low bin tone. One thing is for sure, you had to really sweep slow, and really make sure you weren't skipping something. Out of the ground, it wasn't an issue. But my concern was that on deep silver, or coins on their side, you need to really to sweep very slow, and orient your sweeps in a fashion where the front, middle nose area is the prominent area you need to cover, and not the entire coil. Now this doesn't seem like anything different from what we saw with the Nox, slow, steady sweeps. But I've not seen a coil be so sharply sensitive in that one region. I'm used to coils having a much broader coverage, sometimes with a few inches around the coil as a "halo." I did a factory reset and am now running on general mode to see if it's just the high conductor where I ran into this, but this is overall a very interesting reprogramming. It does help a litle with the issue of ferrous targets ringing high (non-ferrous), but you need to toggle the iron (horshoe) in some instances if you want to use the red line as a visualization assist, and really narrow down consistent VDI numbers, rather than jumps in numeric ranges, as coins.

[@IffySignals]

Thanks for the input, i will give that a shot. I haven’t noticed that yet.

[@micha4923]

thank you.

[@IffySignals]

Welcome

[@Deus-Too]

I already have a two-tone program set up on my manticore for beach general. Can I also set up this five tone program for beach general, or do I have to make it for a different program?

[@IffySignals]

you would need to build it off another program. Maybe ML can provide us with some custom program slots with an update.

[@Photostrated]

Thanks Mike, Can this be saved so you can just switch to it when you want to? or do you have to set it up every time you want to use this setup?

[@IffySignals]

You can save it to your custom but it will save with General or whatever program your using. In my case i use one tone regional all the time so when i want to use this i just switch to 5 tone regional and its there for me.

[@TheLandPirates1]

So cool

[@IffySignals]

Thx Dave

[@chuckswenson8044]

Does that change stay when you turn the machine off , or is it permanent until you make another adjustment.

[@IffySignals]

Yes it stays on whatever mode you use it with. I use it in General and use fast as my main program.

[@charlieschemmel122]

That's cool thanks

[@IffySignals]

Thanks Charlie

[@crossforceusathirdhand]

Very interesting and informative. How do you think it will stack up against a D2 picked clean spot ?

[@IffySignals]

@@crossforceusathirdhand sorry about that. The Manticore is better with this setup because you can still hear unwanted tones. On the D2 you can do the same but with Notch and will not be able to hear them.

[@chuckswenson8044]

Wouldn’t you be doing the same thing with the D2 if you change the tone breaks and the tone frequency, instead of notching The nice thing about the d2 is you can save the program and still have the original settings on the original program . I have had my order in since November for the manticore from Andy ,last check I was number six on the list they are very slow in coming . Thanks for the video

[@IffySignals]

@@chuckswenson8044 welcome Chuck, as of right now you cannot adjust the volume by tone bin on the D2 so it will be the same volume. With this program you drop the volume as well for the unwanted tones but you can still hear them softly. Good luck. Hope it comes soon.

[@ohiofredl]

Thanks.

[@IffySignals]

Welcome 👍

[@user-bs7jl7ng6j]

Can you add for gold coins into this program? I think that’s the only thing missing. I’ve been using this program for months and my coin finds have jump exponentially! I just fear missing out on gold coins & jewelry. I appreciate your service to us novice detectorists.

[@IffySignals]

Glad its working for you. Definitely not a gold program and you definitely will be missing gold as small gold can even give a 1,2 ID.

[@user-bs7jl7ng6j]

@@IffySignalsok thanks for the reply. If I wanna open this program up and use the machine completely “open” would I have to delete this ?

[@codylovelace2237]

No. Just use the horseshoe button. That puts you into all metal mode.

[@scorpio4236]

Would these setting still detect US gold coins or even gold rings? Does the program still work with the new update?

[@IffySignals]

Yes will still work with the new update for Silver but you will miss allot including gold coins.

[@scorpio4236]

@@IffySignals Thank you! There is a place in my area that was an amusement park in the 1890s with 500,000 people visiting annually, I just hate to miss out on some $1 $2.50 $5 $10 or $20 dollar gold coins if there are any... What you you recommend?

[@IffySignals]

@scorpio4236 i would not use this program, run it open except for iron and dig those pull-tab signals for the gold.. good luck 👍

[@scorpio4236]

@@IffySignals Will do my friend! Thank you so much for the videos and being helpful!

[@raydigsdetecting]

👍

[@IffySignals]

Thx Ray