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Glorious Modular Keyboard (Gateron Browns)

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nikki_dubs

Jan 25, 2017

Just got mine in the mail yesterday. It's my first mechanical keyboard and I was planning on using it specifically for typing, not gaming: based on a sound test video I watched, I liked the sound of the Gateron Brown switches and heard from some folks that they have a better "feel" than their Cherry counterparts. Plus I was a big fan of the hotswapping because, being new to the scene, I liked how much easier it would make to customize the switches in the keyboard if I found it necessary.
I don't know if it's the "floating" design of the keys but the sound the spacebar makes drives me absolutely nuts. I'm hoping with some use I'll get used to it and it won't bother me as much but it's a distracting "clonk clonk clonk" noise while the rest of the keys sounds great. Again, because I think it's just the way the keyboard is designed, I'm not sure if there's anything I can do about it to minimize/change the noise. I'm open to suggestions.
Aside from that though, I'm very pleased. The keycaps feel great, the sound/sensation of the Gateron Brown switches is exactly what I was looking for, and for the price of the drop, I'm very satisfied.

Jan 25, 2017

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ThetFromMyanmar

Mar 23, 2017

nikki_dubsI am typing on a different keyboard, the Nixeus Moda Pro, which is also a "floating design" keyboard with Gateron Brown switches minus the hotswappability feature. When I first used it, I loved the sound of all the keys except the stabilized ones, especially the spacebar. I hated the sound of the spacebar because it sounded so different from all the unstabilized keys and annoyed me to no ends, so much so that I stopped using the keyboard altogether.
A few weeks later, after many hours of researching on the next mechanical keyboard to buy, I came across a solution. Apprently, lubricating the stabilizers worked miracles and completely changed the sound of the stabilized keys - turning the annoying high-pitched sound into a pleasant deep thocking sound. I couldn't find the usual lubricants suggested by the pros (like silicon grease, lithium grease or teflon grease) in my country so I used paraffin wax instead and it worked. I would suggest looking around a non-corrosive, non-runny, high-viscosity lubricant to do the job.
While the pros recommend taking apart the board to apply the lubricant, I couldn't figure out a way to take my keyboard apart (I'm new to mechanical keyboards too). So, (the pros would probably call this a blasphemous act) I lifted the cherry stabilizers (the plus-shaped black things that are not on the switches) up with a sharp object and shoved a couple of huge drops of the paraffin wax underneath each of them. And it worked.
I have been using this newfound love of the keyboard for a few weeks now and so far, I don't have any problems with it. Maybe, some time down in the future, I might start encountering problems with my act of lubrication (maybe dust might start collecting on the lubricant) but for now, it has been a miraculous temporary fix that has worked wonders.

Mar 23, 2017