Minelab Quattro - help needed, please!!

[Kasia]

Hello everyone
I got me first metal detector about two weeks ago - it is a Minelab Quattro. Could you please give me some advice what is the best setting to detect on a ploughed field?? And I got a permission to detect on someone else's land, and that person told me that probably there is a very old burial site or a cemetery or something... and that there has been any battle in the past there. What settings would you recommend? Please, I really need help because I am totally confused with my Minelab...

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hello there, I use a safari which is more or less the same ,but updated machine as yours, I use mine like this

All Metal but with minus 10 notched out
Auto sensitivity (until you get used to the machine)
High Trash


with this setting you will get ferrous tones ie high pitched tone should be good find iron will be a low tone

you could also save this setting to one of the left hand side mode buttons as a personal setting (coin / coin Jewelry) to use conductivity tones. Mark

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forgot to say, don't forget to noise cancel , and remember you need a low and slow sweep with these machines,

[mcbain]

Hi Kasia, try to get your hands on a copy of "Mastering the quattro" by Andy Sabische.
I received a copy with my Safari and find it invaluable, I have read it numerous times and find the tips great when I come across any akward situations. He has recently printed an updated version to cover the Safari as well which I will get as soon as it drops a bit in price or I can get it 2nd hand. Like the Safari it is all about getting used to the variations in the tones and only use the display as a back up.
Best of luck with your new machine.

[Massi]

hello Kasia

i use the quattro too, i am not an expert ..
i always get great results ( not perse in finds )
but in the way it operates , stable , smooth and
with an overall comfort when i use it in all metal,
i do not use any kind of discrimination in 90 percent
of my time .. but i run it in manual 17 ( sense )

i barely run it any higher , do not feel the need for it ..
the quattro is a very easy on the go detector, just give it
what it needs wich is a slow swing , and very few air..( go low )

if you got a mid tone , or a high tone , and it is repeatable..
please start to investigate that particular target..
in my toughts the fbs machines , especially the whole explorer
line up of detectors , excell on this .


if you got the rolling sound < even a when it is in one way ..
chances are it is a deep coin ,or coin shaped target..
so all you have to do now is to size your target ..
it needs tosilent silent when you shuffle up one coil, from all corners.
then at last , if you want to be even more secure..
try to size it with the pinpoint button, the buzz needs to be very short .
for this alone i would almost advice headphones.. ( beaches always )
in my quattro time i be able to determine a coin from something else
for let say 61 % .. i could say 90% but that would be bluff.

in time , and that means for me too , i will try to make it a 65 percent and
that would make me really happy.

problem with this is every time i tought i was there ( the 65 ) i was wrong.
so you need to stay humble .
and put some xtra time in it.

the quattro is a great detector , it is not a super machine but worth wile
some extra effort.

good luck.

Massi

[mrix]

Hi Massi, the original poster created the topic way back in 2011 and has not posted since 2018 but thanks for the reply as no doubt it will help others in a similar position reading the topic

[Massi]

ohh i am so sorry ,
what a stupid action from me , i did not see any date ..

thanks for letting me know .
i am happy / hope someone else may pull out a litlle help from it.

[mrix]

i am happy / hope someone else may pull out a litlle help from it.

Thousands of our pages get pulled up through the various search engines and this post has received 2500 views to date so I am sure your contribution will help others

[geoff]

ohh i am so sorry ,
what a stupid action from me , i did not see any date ..

thanks for letting me know .
i am happy / hope someone else may pull out a litlle help from it.

Jolly good of you to take the time to post your set up, no doubt some will find it useful.

[Barbossa76]

It will help me, I'm saving for a safari!!