I would just leave it at 1, and as Andy Sabisch says in his book, 'set it and forget it'. It does not audibly change or boost the signal and I have found that it does not do a heck of a lot other than in an air test, incrementally change the height at which the overload indicator will light up (i.e., changes how close you need to be to a large, shallow object for the overload indicator to light up). The audio overload really just determines the signal strength at which the audio overload indicator in the center of the horseshoe display (see more below) lights up. Audio Overload can be adjusted from 0 to 2 and as mentioned above the default is 1 for all modes. The above settings may be 'basic' or 'expert' and the nested menu system allows ready access to commonly changed settings while preventing users from inadvertently adjusting less commonly changed settings that could also cause subtle or not so subtle changes in performance.Īnyway, Audio Overload is an expert setting under 'Audio Response'. Deep uses an older Deus version signal processing filter that gives more 'definition' to deeper signals at the expense of more chatter, but the settings adjustments available to Deep, are the same as all the other coin/relic presets listed above. Of the other 9 programs (Basic, GM Power, Deus Fast, Pitch, G-MAXX, Deep, Wet Beach, Dry Beach, and Hot), all, other than Deep, are basically just the same program under the hood but with different settings presets for discrimination, tones, sensitivity, transmit power (TX Power), frequency, frequency shift, iron level (iron volume), reactivity, silencer, audio response, audio overload, notch, and default Ground Balance setting. The gold program operates significantly different than the coin/relic programs and has some unique settings so I won't go into it here. Finally, there is ground balance - with various settings there but it basically comes down to manual/auto tracking ground balance and normal/salt beach as the reference.īeyond the global settings, Deus comes preloaded with 9 coin/relic program and 1 gold program. There are pros and cons and exceptions to ID normalization which I won't get into here. Normalization, makes all target ID's ring up as if the coil frequency were fixed at 18 khz regardless of the coil frequency setting. For example, a penny might ring up as 77 at 8 khz but in the high 80's at 25 khz.

Without normalization, target ID for a given target increases with frequency.

The Deus has some 'global' settings that allow you to select the coil you want to use, set the backlight, set the clock, whether or not the control unit speaker audio is on, linking to the wireless pinpointer, the type of visual display preferred (X-Y or 'horseshoe'), and whether or not you have ID NORM ON or OFF (ID NORM - 'normalizes' target ID such that it does not vary with coil frequency. In this case, I think the Audio Overload setting is really a non-issue because frankly I have not seen any difference in the way audio overload responds regardless of the setting, but more on that in a sec.īefore I get into what the audio overload setting is, I think it would be helpful for folks to break down how the Deus is set up from a settings perspective. A lot of misconceptions out there and unfortunately with Deus/ORX, XP uses a lot of arcane, unique terminology (like 'reactivity' - which is XP speak for recovery speed and 'silencer' - an iron falsing filter) that is not necessarily commonly understood and, in the case of the Deus, there are also just a boatload of adjustable parameters to keep track of. Decided to use this question as a springboard for refreshing old Deus users and new Deus users on how Deus settings work.īe careful about 'I read that somebody said' information.

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