GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!! best video on the manticore that ive seen ... ive only had mine for four days and i got to take it out this weekend and i really like it but my 2 complaints coming from a Nox 800 is that it doesnt seem to hit signals as hard.. im here in the states and looking for civil war stuff and when i hit a bullet thats deep with my 800 it SCREAMS but the manticore was kind of unimpressive on the tones.. but im sure that this can be adjusted just have to do more adjustment in the tones.. my other complaint is the shaft itself. I have a telescopic shaft on my 800 and the pieces have a groove down the center to keep everything in alignment but on the manticore as soon as you unlatch the camlock the coil goes everywhere ,not a fan of that at all its a serious design flaw in my opinion but overall love the machine and the update turns it into a serious beast!!! Thanks again for the video and happy hunting!!!!
The shaft you get used to no issue and actually grow to like it and the audio not banging out…. Just try this…. Audio theme normal and then scroll down and change to simple.. ( not medium or rich ) remember to thank and sub if you like it 🤟🤟🤟🤟 i will be banging better than 800 ❤️
Sid the one thing that always shines through in your videos is your honesty in the performance of the machines … The Manticore and the 900 to a lesser extent do appear to be a game changer Regards Ste
I live in an area with very little EMI. I can run most detectors at max sensitivity no problem including the Manticore. It does not chatter at full power. However the Manticore gives 97,98,99 VDI which show as a deep target even repeatable in that spot. After digging a bunch of these only to find nothing I have concluded it's the ground minerals it's picking up. So even though I don't get chatter at full power I get ground falsing on the high end of the numbers. I backed it down until those 97-99 signals went away. Around 27-29 and I started getting deep coins. I was not getting prior at max. So I have come to that same conclusion. The Manticore is working a bit different than my other machines. Fine tune it for stable operation from both emi and ground noise. That happy spot in the sensitivity will give you amazing depth. I mean incredible depth. I am digging sketchy coins on the edge of detection at 12"-14". Wheat pennies at that depth. It's amazing to see.
Thank you for this great video. I took my new Manticore out last night to the beach for the first time. It was the most frustrating experience. I couldn’t get the machine to stop falsing on me. After watching you video I have a feeling the ground balance was not set properly. And I didn’t know there was a noice cancel setting. I have a lot to learn for sure!!! Thank you!!
You have made a great video people can work with, good end calm explenation. Great job, I have the Manticore from last April and have found Nice goodies but still leurning from doing it and experience from others. Keep On going the good work. Greetings, Sander
Well done Sid, I've learned so much and very impressed with all your knowledge. I'll try some of your suggestions as I'm much too dim to take it all in and try too many. My only problem with the Manticore is sometimes I have to do a factory reset to get them to connect to the headset. I always make sure the connect symbol is flashing then switch headset on to no avail. Switch off, do a factory reset and they connect every time.
Once there connected they should stay connected, you turn manti on and then headphones and if the headphone dont connect just quick press the wireless button (dont hold in) if you hold it in it will start searching for new headphones again… You only need to do that if they dont connect auto… Of they don’t connect then do the search process: 1 hold down bluetooth button until icon flashes 2 turn headphones on whilst holding power button in until you hear a series of beeps 3 wait till they connect
Thnx for the additional info on ground balancing 🤙 The soil type where I'm from in 🇦🇺 is volcanic & varys in mineralisation. Will try this method next time I can get out. Cheers mate.
@@englandshistory For sure 👍. Nearing the end of enforced lay off so lm absolutely champing at the bit to get back into it after a couple more weeks. Ive just the iron infested site in mind that I've hit hard with the M'core, all non ferrous bangers are gone so Im super keen to focus on low conductors amongst the iron. No Roman or hammered's in this neck of the woods, if any pop out we'll be re-writing the history books.
@@englandshistory G'day Sid, promised I'd give you my thoughts...pretty wordy but here goes. I went over my well hit iron infested site a final two times with the M'core. It also had a strong farm electric fence giving plenty of emi. Previously cherry picked all the high conductors on AT general. This time I used your suggested ground balance set up. It gave me several number increase in sensitivity to what I was used to before backing off from falsing! Definite ✅ in my book. I tried AT low conductor mode followed by AT fast. I had more success with AT fast in finding small low conductors like pieces of copper metal shards. Some targets were so small I had difficulty seeing them in the dirt even after Mi4 pinpointing. With fast mode I tried enhanced audio & medium profile. I found it helped my ear discern non ferrous targets. When you hit a tasty tone I found best to let the m'core determine the strength of the target response with several repeat passes. If it's any good it will lock on & build on tone strength. This is different to what I'm used to. Same with ferrous, if its initially solid keep swinging from different directions for any change in tid or 2d. When I used stabiliser I ran it at 4-5 with filter on & only when in heavy iron. I found for me this setting best gave ferrous targets an altered tone. Again, I'd picked out all the larger bangers so I was looking for the fine stuff. Initially started on 1 & no filter, with no discernible difference. I think the key to maximise the m'core is not to be fixated with one program fits all but to start on a basic setting, work out your site & make adjustments. Cheers mate
I don't know whether it's right or not, but it seems though the dropping the sensitivity helps you pinpoint the target better. Running high sensitivity seems to increase the search area in the x-y direction way beyond the size of the coil, rather than just increasing the z direction (depth). Dropping the sensitivity from 30 -> 20 has meant that I dig smaller holes but just as deep. I didn't get this with my CTX, even with the big coil fitted.
Nice video Sid il try them settings thank you for the run through. On one of your videos you had a guy who made digging spades how do I get in contact with him thank you trevor
Thanks Sid. Thanks for a nice and well explained video. You mention Roman setelment. How would you set it to such a place where there is also a lot of old metal. I'm not talking about scrap, but rather about tools or even fibulae with iron pins plus lead in the ground. Really hard place.
I am really enjoying the manticore at the minute, even though my finds aint been great lately due to all good fields in crop or pasture too farm to get decent signals… just love the tweakability of manti
I know this video is a year old, but can you give me the name of the ML rep that told you to do the NC the way you mentioned? I speak with Minelab a couple times a month and would like to ask them why a rep is giving info that is 100% different from the manual. Thank you
thx Sid, so is the Manticore the game changer we long term (4 years)nox 800 users are being led to believe it is, I am not seeing much ! so what are your findings ? I am sure you must have compared them, look forward to your upfront comments. been in the game a long long time
Strong word is game changer….ive yet to be blown away by performance but to be fair only had manti a month or so and the grounds been baked dry and not had a productive field to test it on yet…. Do i think its better than the 800 yes for sure 👌🏼 more power, better adjustments to get through iron masking, faster, loads more settings to help performance on tricky ground… If you like playing with settings and adjustments this is the machine for you…. If you want simplicity keep the 800
Agree more settings to play with but I've yet to see anyone proving its better on live targets. I've owned and sold a Manticore as I was not impressed, very expensive for minimal performance gain may be an inch deeper. But battery run time not good. Headphones suffer with wind noise issues. No module. Tones rule visuals gimmicky once you've gelled with it tones are all that's needed. yes its performance on the beach is way better but I don't beach hunt
Hi Sid. I have just bought the Manticore and was following along on your vid looking at the settings Crawfords kindly put in for me when I lost my way a bit and not sure what I have done. I have a a vertical grey stripe on the left hand side of the screen now and not sure what it is. Wafting the same small coins over the coil seems to be unaffected???
Ot sounds like you have added discrimination… does it completely disappear with horse shoe off?? If not and only fades out then its the custom ferrous limits you need to adjust
Nice video. Curious, have you had anymore glitches 8:39? I have had this happen twice and have lost sound two other times when coming out of single frequency. ML has not heard of anyone having these issues. I thought I was nuts until I saw this video. Thank you.
hi, very interesting, is it possible to have all your setting you will use for the beach ? i only prospect on the wait sand for jewerly, before i was using equinox 800 and deus II but manticore is more dificult to find best setting to go more deeper as possible... thank you and excuse for my english i am french...
I very rarely get to do beach detecting but i have a few beach trips organised very soon, i will do a few beach videos and will show peeps how to set machine up for depth and how to get max out the manti… make sure you subscribe and click bell so you get notifications when video is released .. very soon 👍🏼👍🏼
It all depends on how the manti is performing… always try to use as little as you can without the iron constantly tricking you… the less you use on ferrous limits the better you can get the co-mingled targets to sound out… will vary depending on how bad the iron is etc
@@trevorpoile3001 yes if the beach your on has very little nuisance targets showing in the lower limits why would you need to add a large block there ?!? IE you only need to use the needed amount of limits to suit the search, if you have too much on you run the risk of eliminating desired targets that can also fall in that area… ok so imagine your on a mineralised area of the beach and you go over a thin gold chain this could give a target id of say 6 normally on the centre line, but!! If the chain is deeper into the mineralised sand it could drag the target way down into the lower limits and if you have a large area of the lower limits blocked out it will be eliminated! But if the lower limits is set to a more forgiving amount you will still get a good signal on the gold…. But as i said the limits need to be determined depending on how the sand is reacting on the day… all about balancing the machine to suit your search… and the manticore has the best customisable iron bias out there 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 just gotta learn to use it to your advantage
@@englandshistory ok thank you for your help I’m just getting started on the manticore only got it last week coming from a vanquish 540 which iv had for two years nice little detector 👍
Ya agen i watched a vidio on utube years ago..one lad said with his new safari minelab im finding coinage wile my m8 with the 300 quid garet ace was finding rubbish..i laughed when the kid his m8 with the crappy he said detector found a white gold ring with a massive diamond in it lol.he said my safari said his rings gold..ha ha..trouth is m8 any detector over 250 quid will find anything if its shallow like under 1 foot..that garret found the ring ..its like this ..UV GOT TO WALK OVER IT TO FIND IT..THATS 4 ANYTHING .EVEN CHEEP DETECTORS WILL FIND IT ..SOME WANT WATER PROOF..SOME WNT CHEEP..ANY DETECTOR WILL FIND GOODS IF ITS NOT 2 DEEP..
Hats why iv waited to see b4 spending loads ov cash on a detector ..it looks 2 hard 4 me to learn m8 ...iv got an minelab safari its ace easy to use goes 2 ft deep plus,im getting the older now etrack ,,iv learned everything from safari thats ace so now im going to bye the minelab etrack..the detector i wonted to start with..new 1 ovcourse ..the nox looks ace 4 finding bronze coins safari ammazing with the silver bits n bobs ..every 1 wonts the most expensive detector..there really hard to use aspecially 4 new detectorists .dont make the mistake i nearly bourt etrack second hand but next day it was sold 450 uk pounds so i bourt the safari so glad 4 same money with head phones wire less n wired bag regtons all boxed got a garret pin pointer aswell as spaid plus carry all find pouch all boxed ammazing deal..i bourt deus 1 4 1000 quid no 1 said owt about deus 2 coming out ..iv used it 3 times found loads ov bits n bobs agen same as my safari ..wated 1000quid ..if id av waited 10 months id av bourt the deus 2 cannot charģe deus 1 n 2 to gether 2 much to charge..2 machines..safari the 100 pound battert reachargable lasts 3 full days on all time same as etrack it takes the same battery lol..there mistake with me ha...thanks sid the 2 hard to use manticore is not 4 me even though iv got 2 grand saved up 4 this..thanks Sid m8 ,,helped me make my mind up on my new detector.?cheers youre ace m8..good luck...
In my opinion, yes, both great machines but the manticore bangs the tricky signals better..... I really want the d2 to be up there but I think it needs a better update for max performance
