How to minimize bass in the sound of your keyboard.

[albert_ara]

I want to make a new build, but I am fairly new to the sport. Only done one before.



I want to do a built similarly sounding and feeling like these here:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=xt4RV78WNJs&feature=emb_title



What sticks out to me is how there is no bass frequency in those tip taps, only super clean clicky clocks. A lot of treble.
I'll be going to linear switches, maybe one of those two (Alpacas or NovelKeys Creams), and of course lubed up.

What factors into muting those bass frequencies? In my current build there is quite a lot of them as I am using tactile switches (unlubed) and i have an acrylic backplate. Aluminum frame.
Maybe having the PCB top mounted would help? Or would that not really matter?

Thanks in advance.

[tp4tissue]

Anything resembling bass with regard to recording a keyboard will have to do with the rigidity of the table, and NOT the board itself.

If you record on a thinner enclosed table, you'd get some thumps from keypresses.

[equalunique]

The more rigid the plate, the less bassy the sound will be, and vice versa. Stainless steel is your friend. Plateless & half-plate builds are your enemy.

Larger keys also produce bassier sound. Keebs using tiny spacebars can sound crisper. Same basic principal with musical instruments like bells - the smaller, the higher the pitch. It's not so much the keys themselves but the amount of empty space they leave beneath them that causes this.

Clipped stabilizers are less bassy because the little feet that soften the impact are absent.

Keebs with sound blocking materials between the plate & PCB, also the PCB & case, will sound less bassy too.

Switch housings made of more rigid material, which tend to be the clear/translucent ones, are also less bassy.

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[albert_ara]

Thanks for the insight guys.

I knew that the table I type on is also a factor, but my table shouldn't have that problem really. I'm talking more about the sound of the keyboard itself. Like of you compare those novelkeys cream switches to something like tactile switches, if you'd compare the same board on the same table.


Ans also thank you for your answer equalunique. It's kind of what I though in the first place.

[tp4tissue]

There is hardly any bass 0-80hz. Increasing the rigidity of Any attachments would reduce sound + reverberation of the whole spectrum, bass, mid-tone, and treble.

[treeleaf64]

To increase rigidity, you could use a brass or stainless steel plate.

[DALExSNAIL]

Funnily enough I want the exact opposite of this.

I've personally found higher pitches when using steel, aluminum, acrylic, and Poly.

I keep seeing recently that others say Brass is higher pitched, but I've found it to be noticably deeper and "thockier" sounding when using anything brass, myself.

Most all of the transparent housings for switches are higher pitched in sound I've found, zealios being the worst offender for me but ymmv. If you want to use creams or alpacas, I'd personally at least swap the tops for gat clear tops.

I'm surprised you're hearing even a little bass in an aluminum case with an acrylic plate, that combo has been very very high pitched for me in the past. What keyboard is it?