Check out my full Fjell review here: • Mekanisk Fjell || Keyboard Review
I finally got my Fjell, and of course I had to do this at least once. This is likely as close as I can get with regard to how the legendary Taeha Fjell sounds, and it's important to remember that sound tests are highly unreliable when determining exactly how a keyboard sounds. Recording equipment, mic distance, room acoustics, typing style, and more all have a huge impact on how a keyboard sounds in a video. Not to mention, switch batch variance, lube application, and other small nuances will also further separate one keyboard from another, even if they're built exactly the same. Sound tests can be useful in other ways, but chasing sounds from a YouTube video is a hopeless endeavor. Please don't use sound tests like this to set your expectations when purchasing a keyboard or switches.
Blacksimon has an excellent video on sound tests that I'll link here: • Real Talk: Keyboard soundtests are a LIE
I hope this sound test can show that there certainly is a unique sound by this combination, but no sound test is ever truly replicable. Real life application will always sound different than YouTube videos, and no two boards will ever sound exactly the same even if they're built the same way. I will likely be reviewing the Fjell as a whole after I spend some more time with it, I was just excited to share something new. (Review is up!)
Overall, I enjoy how this sounds. The spacebar has a nice contrast in sound to the alphas, and I decided not to include the 2 middle standoffs (so I only used the outer 4 mounting points). The feel was much more tolerable this way, it was too stiff with all the mounting points installed. In this video I'm using one piece of the Mekanisk foam on the bottom of the case, and another layer of tool shelf liner (yes, the one linked in the OG Taeha video) on top of that.
A lot of the sound I found was influenced by the case foam (duh), but another small contributor was the spacebar orientation. Having it flipped, I guess the angle at which my thumb pressed it was different enough to affect the bottom out sound. Either that or ePBT is just warped and more scuffed in the other orientation. Still sounded similar to normal orientation of course, but it was subtle enough for me to notice.
The main discrepancies between my Fjell and Taeha's are the keycap material, since mine are PBT instead of ABS, and I used a slightly different combination of case foam than he did for the sake of tuning case resonance. I dug around some discords and he said he only used 1 sheet of the shelf liner in his video's description, but I opted for that on top of 1 layer of Mekanisk foam. I tried to make this video to prove a point, as I explained in the first part of this description. I hope this can help people make a more informed decision.
Keyboard Specs:
Keyboard: Mekanisk Fjell (Grey) with 1 sheet of Mekanisk Foam on bottom, and 1 sheet of tool shelf liner on top of that
Plate: Brass from Mekanisk
PCB: WT60-D Weirdflex from Mekanisk
Stabilizers: Durock V2, Smokey Grey, lubed with XHT-BDZ on wire, Krytox 205g0 on housing
Switches: Drop Holy Pandas (R2), lubed with Tribosys 3204
Keycaps: ePBT x GOK WoB from KBDfans
Microphone: Shure MV7 into Focusrite 2i2, positioned like 6 inches in front of my forehead pointed down at the keyboard. Gain is pretty high, 90-95% idk
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