Tom Ashworth's Recommended Settings
Pick your machine, choose where you hunt, get dialed-in settings.
Select your detector
Start with the machine you're swinging today.
What are you hunting?
Settings change a lot between beach, parks, relics, and gold ground.
Beach zone
Wet sand and dry sand need different ground handling and recovery speed.
Your setup is ready
Open your dedicated settings page with every adjustment and icon.
Expert metal detector settings for every hunt
Tom Ashworth's Recommended Settings helps you dial in sensitivity, ground balance, discrimination, recovery speed, and coil choice for 42 popular metal detectors. Whether you hunt wet sand, dry beach, parks, relic sites, gold ground, or competition events, each page gives you a proven starting point for your machine.
Brands covered include Minelab (Manticore, Equinox, Vanquish), XP (Deus 2, ORX, Icon), Nokta (Legend, Score, Simplex), and Garrett (AT Max, ACE Apex, Axiom).