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Title: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:09:40: without having to resort to putting these under the keycaps

(http://www.houseofrave.com/media/fireworks/pop-pop-snappers-big2.jpg)
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: AKIMbO on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:13:07: Scream "click" when typing. Alternatively, switch to buckling springs. Put the board in an all metal case.
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: Pacifist on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:14:55: Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:09:40

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Is that drugs?
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:15:15: i want that BS sound but in a cherry switch. that'd be my ultimate board.
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:15:34: Sound is "relative"..

You can make the keyboard sound louder, by reducing the noise of your surroundings..

Because whatever you can do to the board itself, would only produce negligible increase in loudness..

.. reduce spring weight..
.. dampen bottom out noise..
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: AKIMbO on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:15:43: Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:15:15
i want that BS sound but in a cherry switch. that'd be my ultimate board.

You want the sound deeper or louder?
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:16:21: Quote from: Pacifist on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:14:55
Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:09:40

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(http://www.houseofrave.com/media/fireworks/pop-pop-snappers-big2.jpg)

Is that drugs?

You've never seen drop pops before? fo. serious?(http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/233cd70a.gif)
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: Dubsgalore on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:17:40: Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:09:40
without having to resort to putting these under the keycaps

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(http://www.houseofrave.com/media/fireworks/pop-pop-snappers-big2.jpg)

i love snaps so much..............
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: Pacifist on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:18:54: Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:16:21
Quote from: Pacifist on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:14:55
Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:09:40

Show Image
(http://www.houseofrave.com/media/fireworks/pop-pop-snappers-big2.jpg)

Is that drugs?

You've never seen drop pops before? fo. serious?
Show Image
(http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/233cd70a.gif)

Oh I remember these. One halloween a while ago this one kid brought some and being the dumbass this kid was, he threw them into grass.

Keep in mind he for some reason sprayed his ****ty $45 airsoft gun at a bunch of kids. Luckily the ****ty gun couldn't hit anything
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:22:45: Quote from: AKIMbO on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:15:43
Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:15:15
i want that BS sound but in a cherry switch. that'd be my ultimate board.

You want the sound deeper or louder?

yup

Quote from: Pacifist on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:14:55
Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:09:40

Show Image
(http://www.houseofrave.com/media/fireworks/pop-pop-snappers-big2.jpg)

Is that drugs?

what are you, 10?
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: divito on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:32:25: Quote from: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:09:40
without having to resort to putting these under the keycaps

Mic up your keyboard? Use metal caps? Use a plated-keyboard?
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:36:10: board will be plated and in an alu case
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: fohat.digs on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:44:14: take the case off and ride it bareback
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: JPG on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:48:27: Just a theory, but if you managed to put some tiny metal plates between the 2 parts of the stem that "clicks" together, you would probably get some more clickyness, but I don't know how you could manage that. Also, putting it in a thin metal case with thin metal keycaps could increase the effect of the sound, but still all theory. It could also bring back the PING!
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: demik on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:51:35: somebody needs to develop a way that i can plug earphones into my keyboard so that's all i hear
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: dorkvader on Wed, 13 November 2013, 21:14:58: Titanium keycaps?
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: CPTBadAss on Wed, 13 November 2013, 21:15:07: Do what some of the older keyboards did and install a speaker?
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: kolonelkadat on Thu, 14 November 2013, 05:21:53: get a stethoscope, place it on desk behind keyboard. replace ear pieces with microphones. connect microphones to pc. connect headphones to pc. maximum the volume.

put on head phones, enjoy the clicky sounds. and probably also the pinging of the springs though.
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: RabRhee on Thu, 14 November 2013, 05:31:57: Quote from: JPG on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:48:27
Just a theory, but if you managed to put some tiny metal plates between the 2 parts of the stem that "clicks" together, you would probably get some more clickyness, but I don't know how you could manage that. Also, putting it in a thin metal case with thin metal keycaps could increase the effect of the sound, but still all theory. It could also bring back the PING!

All of this. Or change the sliding part of the stem to another material, now I want to make some metal sliders just to see how much louder they could get. Probably affect the feel of the switch a small amount (small? :P).

Just fit little cymbal shapes to the corners of all your keys and the spots they land near, so each key becomes a miniature version of the battery pink bunny rabbit with cymbals that crash every time you press a key.
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: Findecanor on Thu, 14 November 2013, 05:38:15: If you are using Windows, install ClicKey (https://www.grc.com/freeware/clickey.htm) and increase the speaker volume to max.
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: Oobly on Thu, 14 November 2013, 07:04:05: Nitroglycerine oring mod...

Or what he said ^^ (Findecanor).

Or make a hole in the keyboard case at the front, like a guitar sound hole? Metal sliders and bottom case?

Or what he said ^^

How about this one: install fuel injectors and spark plugs in each key case...

Or what he said ^^
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 14 November 2013, 07:29:07: Modify the stems so they have a greater tactile bump. Will cause the contact leaf to move further away from the contact point, and then when the slider drops after actuation the sound should (in theory) be louder.

Don't know if this is even probable or possible, but it's all I can come up with...
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: kgrad5 on Thu, 14 November 2013, 07:30:50: Quote from: AKIMbO on Wed, 13 November 2013, 20:13:07
Scream "click" when typing.

Amazing. I am going to start doing this when people are in my office.
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 07:37:40: http://jinglekeys.com/jinglekeys/
Title: Re: how can i make blues/greens louder?
Post by: Krogenar on Thu, 14 November 2013, 07:57:47: Quote from: CPTBadAss on Wed, 13 November 2013, 21:15:07
Do what some of the older keyboards did and install a speaker?

I've always wanted to see this done. Instead of a "click" sound, sample... I dunno, Thor's hammer smashing something multiple times, and then randomly playing the sound with each keypress. Or assign a sound to each key, and set them up so that standard words ring out something that sounds pleasant. How difficult would that be -- an acoustically-enhanced keyboard?

EDIT: http://jinglekeys.com/jinglekeys/ -- thank you Ray!