Just watch out you can only use them with Cherry MX or similar type of switches. Also, the travel distance is shorter, depending on the thickness. So a less popular alternative are soft landing pads, basically a piece a foam cloth you can place on the switch itself. You can imagine that installing o-rings is quite tedious. Mind blowing right? OK, here comes the interesting part.Īccording to different sources, L will shorten the distance by 0. We could go further into this and how the build quality of a keyboard can further influence the sound, but heck that would get too boring! So, now that we know all this, what does it mean? The last letter represents the thickness of the O-ring. The plate mounted holds the switch firmly in its place, while PCB mounted will flex a bit and thereby reducing the sound vibrations. That leaves one last factor that can influence the sound of your keyboard, PCB or plate mounted switches. Furthermore, if you use particular thick keycaps, such as ABS double-shot or PBT keycapsit will alter the sound produced. However, when you use Cherry MX blue switches there is another sound produced by the switch itself. So other than apologizing, what can you do about it? You know, that mechanism that defines mechanical keyboards. They would keep their distance or tell you to throw it away, but Stop! Similar to somebody playing League of Legends next to you, mouse clicking like there is no tomorrow. For some a feature and others a nuisance. Tik-tak, Click-clack, Bump-thump and million of other noises your mechanical keyboard can make.