💫 60% O-Ring Boards And Why I Love Them - Sound Tests ONLY - Bakeneko60, CustomNeko, Ciel60, Jixte60

Start & Default Bakeneko Samson Q2U 00:00
Samson Q9U 00:48
Pixel 6a 01:12
Audio Technica AT2020 01:36
Rode NT1 02:00
Lewitt 040 02:24
Default CustomNeko Q2U 02:53
Q9U 03:26
Pixel 6a 03:54
AT2020 04:22
NT1 04:50
Lewitt 05:18
Default Ciel60 Q2U 05:50
Q9U 06:27
6a 06:47
AT2020 07:11
NT1 07:38
Lewitt 08:05
Default Jixte60 Q2U 08:34
Q9U 09:09
Pixel 6a 09:36
AT2020 10:03
NT1 10:30
Lewitt 10:57
CustomNeko Weightless Q2U 11:26
Q9U 12:10
6a 12:35
AT2020 13:00
NT1 13:25
Lewitt 13:50
Ciel60 Weightless Q2U 14:21
Q9U 15:05
Pixel 6a 15:32
AT2020 15:59
NT1 16:26
Lewitt 16:45
Jixte No Internal Weight Q2U 17:10
Q9U 17:42
Pixel 6a 18:07
AT2020 18:32
NT1 18:57
Lewitt 19:22
Jixte Weightless Q2U 19:50
Q9U 20:23
Pixel 6a 20:49
AT2020 21:15
NT1 21:41
Lewitt 22:07
Jixte In Bakeneko Q2U 22:38
Q9U 23:13
Pixel 6a 23:36
AT2020 24:03
NT1 24:28
Lewitt 24:53
Jixte In CustomNeko Q2U 25:27
Q9U 25:57
Pixel 6a 26:23
AT2020 26:49
NT1 27:15
Lewitt 27:41
Jixte In Ciel60Q2U 28:09
Q9U 28:46
Pixel 6a 29:12
AT2020 29:38
NT1 30:04
Lewitt 30:30
Default Bakeneko Mods & Keys 31:01
Default CustomNeko Mods & Keys 31:42
Default Ciel60 Mods & Keys 32:25
Default Jixte60 Mods & Keys 33:11
CustomNeko Weightless Mods & Keys 33:56
Ciel60 Weightless Mods & Keys 34:37
Jixte No Internal Weight Mods & Keys 35:18
Jixte Weightless Mods & Keys 36:01
Jixte In Bakeneko Mods & Keys 36:43
Jixte In CustomNeko Mods & Keys 37:25
Jixte In Ciel 60 Mods & Keys 38:08
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DISCLAIMER
Not every sound test will mimic what a keyboard sounds like in real life. I suggest listening to other sound tests and taking everything with a grain of salt.
I am not a professional, my room is not sound-treated, and a lot of my boom arms are attached to the desk that I am typing on.
I do not do sound tests to be as accurate as possible and portray what a board sounds like perfectly in real life. This is something I do for fun!
I will continue to improve my sound tests with better lighting, video, and audio, but please do not take my videos as professional-grade or “how a keyboard with this config will sound like”.
I hope that using different mics will illustrate that depending on your mic, you may catch higher/lower frequencies better than other mics, and some mics sound naturally “brighter” or “darker” than other mics, even without any filters or any sort of post-processing.
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Sound test specs
- Recorded in an untreated room, so background noises can sometimes be heard
- Glorious 4mm thick desk mat on a solid wood desk
- Panasonic HDC-TM90 Camcorder
- Audio normalization in DaVinci Resolve for easier listening, but no other sort of EQ or alterations were made to the audio
- Recorded in Reaper and rendered in 24-bit/48 kHz
- Audio interface sample rates at 48 kHz
Mic specs
- Lewitt 040 Matched pair of small diaphragm condenser mics in AB configuration mounted on a mic stand not in contact with the desk that I type on running into an Audient Evo 8
- Rode NT1 5th Gen condenser mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on running into an Audient Evo 8
- Audio Technica AT2020 condenser mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on running into an Audient Evo 8
- Samson Q2U dynamic mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on using USB mode
- Samson Q9U dynamic mic mounted on a boom arm attached to the desk used to type on using USB mode
- Google Pixel 6a mounted on a gooseneck mount not connected to the desk used to type on
- The Samson Q2U, Samson Q9U, Rode NT1 5th Gen, and AT2020 are in some way attached to the typing desk. The Pixel 6a and the Lewitt 040 mics are not
- All mics and phone 15 cm away from the top of the keycaps (rough distance between my ears and the keycaps when measured directly vertically)
- No windscreens or pop filters are attached to any of the mics
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Keyboard specs
All Switches Spring Swapped w/Geon 22mm Single-Stage 65gram springs that were bag lubed with GPL105. All switch stems hand lubed with 205g0.
All Keebs using Cherry Clip Ins lubed with 205g0 for the housings and stem and dielectric grease for the wire ends/crooks
Cannonkeys Bakeneko60
- Glossy Grey Colorway
- Soldered Bakeneko60 PCB with Carolina Mech Carbon Fiber Half Plate
- GMK Norse
CustomNeko
- 1 of 1 bought off of r/mm
- CNCed black anodization with aluminum through weight
Soldered Waffling60 PCB (flex cut) with Alu Full Plate
- GMK WoB
CIel60
- Blue Gray colorway
- Internal brass weight
- Soldered Waffling60 PCB (flex cut) with Alu Full Plate
- GMK Hennessy
Jixte60
- Purple E-coat with internal and external brass weights
- Soldered Eclipse60 PCB with Aluminum Full Plate
- GMK Analog Dreams
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This is the sound tests only part of my "Why I Love 60% O-Ring Boards" video. That video will release shortly and will be shorter and only have the Lewitt mic recordings.
I wanted to release this video for anyone that wanted every sound recording!

[@HubertTheMad]

This is just all the sound tests of the upcoming 60% o-ring board video that's coming out this week. I figured I'd release this uncut version in case someone wanted to listen to all the recordings since the video that's coming out will be much shorter, will have voiceovers, and won't have all the sound tests.
There were some errors with some portions of the sound tests (you'll see the "Media Offline" flash on the screen every now and then), but I figured I might as well release it as-is since I couldn't figure out what was happening in DaVinci Resolve (cache was cleared, clips were relinked/no issues with offline media until rendering).
Hopefully it isn't too distracting. Again, my main focus was the upcoming "main" video, and this one is more raw and uncut, so after a few attempts at troubleshooting, I just figured I'd upload the vid anyways.
Aappreciate you all as always, and enjoy!

[@Fajowski50]

Been looking forward to this video for over a month. I love the super long sound tests. Can’t get enough of them. Thank you.

[@HubertTheMad]

Thanks for being patient!

[@trantrios]

Thanks for the sound test! Can you link a tutorial on how to show monkey type on the screen like that? I wanted to make some typing tests too and can’t figure out how to do it.

[@HubertTheMad]

Hey, thanks for watching! Hmmm, let me look around and see. I basically record my monkeytype application using OBS, then use my editing software (DaVinci Resolve, the free version) to basically crop everything but the typing area and rotate it with the rotation tools (and zoom tools to modify the size)

[@trantrios]

@@HubertTheMad thanks so much

[@HubertTheMad]

@@trantrios no problem! I couldn't find an actual video, but depending on what editing software you use, you "should" be able to overlay the OBS (or any other screen capture software) footage of your monkeytype typing onto the video of you actually typing so it shows up on a video