That's kinda the price you pay with a mechanical keyboard, especially if you got a keyboard with Blue or Green switches. ORRRRRRRRRRRRRRR if you have one of those old IBM Beamspring keyboards or an IBM Buckling Spring keyboards lmfao. Red and Browns are probably as quiet as you will get with a mechanical keyboard just barebones. Black switches would follow afterwards.

There are a few differences with them. Reds are very light feeling which if you are used to "tap typing" will be better for you since you don't need to put much pressure on the keys to have them activate. This might be a little bit better for gaming if that's how you type or in the instance of ADADADAD spamming, you can switch between the keys faster because you don't have to put as much force on a single key. With that said, there is no tactile bump, which personally, kills the idea of Reds for me.

Brown is the in-between of Red and Black. Retains the same audio level of Reds, feels a little bit heavier, retains the same actuation force as Reds but it has the tactile bump that a lot of typist like. I did mention it uses the same actuation force as Reds; however, Reds did seem a little quicker when spamming things like ADADADAD in game. That might be because they feel a little lighter but you can achieve the same thing with Browns.

Black is the heavier of the switches while still being quiet. They require 60-80g of force to activate as opposed to Red and Brown with 45g. It has a lot more resistant on it so it's harder to roll-over a key, such as if you hit H near the edge of the keycap while most of your finger is on the H key, you won't press the J key down fully with just the corner of your finger unless you slammed it down. They also don't have a tactile bump so they're personally not for me.



Video attached in the spoiler of a soundtest with Cherry MX Reds, Browns, Blues and Blacks.

Times as follow:

Cherry MX Brown: 1:25
Cherry MX Red: 2:06
Cherry MX Blue: 3:06
Cherry MX Black: 3:44

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Now, since I'm not going to tell you to buy a new keyboard, there are a few things you can do. You can buy O-rings and put them on the keycaps to dampen the noise as they click in or buy Soft Pads for the keyboard. So here's the deal with both of these. O-Rings you have to remove each key and place one O-ring on each key. Lot of work to do. It makes things quieter in most cases, but nothing like dead silent so don't go your hopes up for that. It also gives it some mushy feeling because now there is rubber there, which reminds me of those shitty keyboards that come with pre-built office PC. However, because there is now an added piece, the keys can bottom out faster. This does depend on how you type, but they do bottom out faster if you train yourself to know that there is something there that shortens the travel time and don't push harder or hold a little bit longer because you're used to them before.

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So with these, you just take off your keycaps and put each piece of the foam over the switches, once that is done, you just put the keycaps back on. These are a little quicker than one by one with the O-rings because with the O-rings, you have to put them on the keycap, make sure the rubber is at the end, then put them back down, with these, right over the switch, place keycap back in place, boom, done. However, the type of material used in these can be a dust magnet. It's basically just packaging foam to be honest. It makes things a little more quiet on a keystroke, but not by a lot either. They will feel different, won't feel of a mushy rubber feeling like with O-rings. It will feel as if you are pressing something onto foam. There are different levels of material and thickness of these, there are soft and firm foam as well as foam that is really thin or really thick where the keycap barely fits back on so if you get one it is something to look at.

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Onto the headset itself. Discord has a mic sensitivity option. In Discord go to Settings > Voice & Video and set the input sensitivity.

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I haven't used Skype in ages so I'm not sure if there is a mic sensitivity adjustment there.

Steam and games on Steam has a microphone volume/output volume setting. While this doesn't change the sensitivity of the mic, you can lower it to make things more quiet when speaking through the mic. Key board sounds included; just now, your voice is going to be not as loud, so you may have to talk louder than normal to make up for it.

As for the headset itself, couldn't really find much on it except for this Reddit post. Sure this situation is different from you, but it's still worth a check. You're farther away from your keyboard than this person was with the mic near their mouth and picking them up breathing, so it should work better for you.

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