Im using my first mechanical keyboard and the experience has been great so far but, it is quite loud, especially at night, which cheap mods i can make to make it quieter while i can do something like changing the switches?

  • neatchee@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    As suggested by the other commenter, o-rings are the best cheap solution.

    Another option that works if your keyboard has a hollow body is sound-dampening insulation inside the frame.

    I have a Kinesis Advantage that has a ton of negative space inside and simply putting some non-conductive foam inside the shell made a huge difference in the amount of noise it makes

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    3 months ago

    Deskmat under the keyboard

    Tape and/or foam mods in the case (will change the pitch of the sound, which might disturb less)

    O-rings, but these will change how they keyboard feels. I didn’t like them

    Foam inserts for keycaps - like o-rings but foam. never tried them

    Lubricating the stabilizers - should mitigate some space and enter key rattle

    If your keyboard supports hotswap, new switches are a more expensive option.

    Edit: The person who invented markdown WYSIWYG text editors is on my shit list

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    3 months ago

    Depends on your board. I had a Redragon K530, here are the list of mods I applied to it in order of price:

    • Put foam on the bottom (the type of foams that come with PC components works great), stuff like this
    • Added O-rings
    • Replaced the switches with Redragon A113 Bullet-QT soft tactile

    I think the switches made the biggest impact, but that’s also the most expensive and it requires your board to be hot swappable.

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    3 months ago

    If you are using choc switches, the new ambients are made to be silent, and so far it has worked great for me

  • hiroyt@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    If you are using it on a hard surface, consider placing a mat under your keyboard, it’ll dampen the sound of keystroke.