#SILENT CLICKY SWITCHES MOD#

If people genuinely enjoy the typing feel of clicky switches, this 'silent click' mod will be very useful for them, because it won't change the key feel while having the click sound muted.Designed specifically for our Quiet Pro line of keyboards, Matias Quiet Click switches convey a feeling of refined comfort. If clicky lovers had headphones on, will they actually prefer the key feel over tactile ones? I wonder if the click sound is creating a placebo to some extent. I wonder whether people who prefer clicky switches like the sound of it or the key feel of it. Now I have another thought on this topic. If the click leaf moves freely like the clicky switches, the keystrokes will feel the same, and if we add a cushion between the click leaf and the housing, the click sound will be muted without changing the key feel.

This will make the keystrokes feel different because the click leaf is immobilized, and the bent part of the click leaf, which creates the tactility, will be in a different angle. So basically, these tabs make it impossible for the click leaf from rising up from the housing wall from the first place. If there is a cushion between the clicker and the housing, the click sound will be muted, without changing the feel of the keystroke, because the slider itself won't be impacted by the cushion, the tactility will still be there, just the click sound will be muted.īy the way, having a cushion between the clicker and the housing will be totally different from alps tactile switches like the Matias quiet click, because tactile alps simply disables the clicker from moving. The rubberized surface of the retainer doesn't impact the slider itself, which makes the typing feel the same way as before, but simply muting the click sound.įor the alps clicky switches, the mechanism is here Although the Matias clicky switches are simplified alps, I believe that the click mechanism itself is about the same as complicated alps. The mechanism is shown here If we were to have a rubberized coating on the underside of the retainer, the click will be muted, while the tactility won't be changed. There is a retainer that holds the click bar in place, and the click is generated by the click bar hitting the retainer. Basically, this makes the tactile force consistent no matter how heavy the springs are. The click is basically generated by the click bar which slides off the slider, creating the tactility.

Unlike the cherry mx mechanism, Kailh click bar switches have a separate part that generates the click, unlike the cherry mx clicky switches which have the clicking mechanism embedded with the slider.

#SILENT CLICKY SWITCHES FREE#

The age old oxymoron, the 'silent clicky' switches might be possible, but I have some other questions of thoughts on this.įirst of all, I believe that Alps clicky switches can be 'quiet click'-d and also kailh click bar switches can be 'quiet click'-dīefore that comparing everything to the most common cherry mx style clicky switch,Ĭherry blues have a mechanism that has a click jacket, which is basically a free moving piece of plastic that launches to the bottom after the actuation.Ī mod to make mx blues quieter is often done by jailhouse modding, but the o-rings inserted between the stem and the click jacket basically disables the free moving click jacket from moving at all, which ultimately makes jailhouse blues a tactile switch, not a clicky switch.

Silent clicky switches