🤖 Logitech G710+ Modding (Desoldering, Resoldering) - We Can Rebuild It!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2024
- Start & Intro 00:00
Stock sound test cherry mx browns 02:02
Stock sound test cherry mx blues 02:40
What I’ll be doing 03:10
Removing keycaps, cleaning, opening keebs 03:37
Recap and next steps 07:21
Desoldering 07:51
Desoldering tips and tricks 08:37
Removing and lubing stabs 12:35
Clipping switch legs 13:01
Recap and soldering explanation 13:50
Soldering, completion, and putting it all back together 16:30
Finished! 18:45
Final sound test 20:10
Mods & keys 22:55
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Music Used
Royalty/Copyright Free Sci-Fi Background Music from @weefreemusic
DISCLAIMER
Not every sound test will mimic what a keyboard sounds like in real life. I suggest listening to other sound tests and taking everything with a grain of salt.
I am not a professional, my room is not sound-treated, and a lot of my boom arms are attached to the desk that I am typing on.
I do not do sound tests to be as accurate as possible and portray what a board sounds like perfectly in real life. This is something I do for fun!
I will continue to improve my sound tests with better lighting, video, and audio, but please do not take my videos as professional-grade or “how a keyboard with this config will sound like”.
I hope that using different mics will illustrate that depending on your mic, you may catch higher/lower frequencies better than other mics, and some mics sound naturally “brighter” or “darker” than other mics, even without any filters or any sort of post-processing.
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Sound test specs
- Recorded in an untreated room, so background noises can sometimes be heard
- Glorious 4mm thick desk mat on a solid wood desk
- Panasonic HDC-TM90 Camcorder
- Audio normalization in DaVinci Resolve for easier listening, but no other sort of EQ or alterations were made to the audio
- Recorded in Reaper and rendered in 24-bit/48 kHz
- Audio interface sample rates at 48 kHz
Sound Test Mic specs
- Lewitt 040 Matched pair of small diaphragm condenser mics in AB configuration mounted on a mic stand not in contact with the desk that I type on running into an Audient Evo 8
Voiceover Mic Specs
- Rode NT1 5th Gen condenser mic running into an Audient Evo 8
- Samson Q9U dynamic mic using USB mode
- Google Pixel 6a
Soldering Equipment Specs
- American Haptics silicone mat
- Kotto fume extractor
- Hakko FR-301 desoldering gun using a 1.3mm long N61-13 tip
- Cheapo Amazon $20 soldering kit as well as Hakko FX888D soldering station
- Kester 63/37 tin/lead solder
- Thermaltronics tip tinner
- SRA solder 135 rosin paste (Flux)
- Radioshack desoldering braid (can use other brands like the Lesnow solder wicks)
Digital Microscope Specs
- Andonstar AD106S USB
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Keyboard specs
Logitech G710+ (bought in 2016)
- Cherry MX Browns
- Stock aluminum/steel plate
- Red Samurai clones (removed them for the original keycaps)
- Soldered in some Emogogo/Nainaigogo switches courtesy of @nainaigogo6666
- Emogogo NO1s
Logitech G710+ (bought in 2018 apparently)
- Cherry MX Blues
- Stock aluminum/steel plate
- Milk & Honey clones (removed them for the original keycaps)
- Updated switches and mods TBD (you all decide!) - บันเทิง
Comment below and let me know how you want me to rebuild the other blue Logitech G710+!
Switches (I will make sure to lube + spring swap them as I always do):
- Cherry MX Reds
- Cherry MX Blues (same ones)
- KTT Roses
- Frankenswitch (Cherry MX top, UHMWPE MM stems, bottoms)
- Gat Raws
- Another switch (let me know)
Mods:
- Polyfill
- Zip-and-fit/shelf liner
- Kilmat
- Any others (let me know)
Overall Sound:
- low pitched and more quiet/muted
- high pitched and loud
Could try jailhouse modding the stock Blues (o-ring method is the easiest to source and cheap) + adding 1.2mm ball bearings for shorter travel + extra thock, and, of course, tape mod and foam would help. (I've only done zip and fit so idk if others would work better).
@@nothlur Very intriguing, thanks for the ideas!
Sounds much cleaner afterwards! Why does it feel bad to put nice switches in this board? Let’s go KTT roses with polyfill
@@keypothecary aye, great choice!
@@keypothecary feels bad cause you know you aren't gonna get the most out of them :(
wow! I had this board before. Now I regret giving it away. It sounds really good!
Haha, turns out, it can be kinda fun to try and revive our old gamer boards! Not that I did the best with this one (or the second one), but the process itself was pretty fun
The Heracles 80 video by :3ildcat is one of my favorite sounding boards. I love that poppy, marbly sound. If you can replicate that and then go crazy with the sound tests, I’d be in heaven.
Good idea!
Hi
😊 thanks again for the switches!
Idk, I have mixed feelings about the finished results. It sounds better, definetly, but now you can really hear the lackluster quality to an extreme degree. It is just very weird for some reason
For sure. Especially since the browns were suuuper broken in to the point where perhaps a spring swap and lubing them (as well as lubing the stock stabs of course) and then installing them straight back into the board might've even resulted in a much better sound than the emogogo switches.
I actually have plans for the browns in another board, hence why I didn't install them back haha (definitely my most broken in switch of all-time since I had been typing on that board for 5+ years).
I think when we get to modding and picking the switches for the MX Blues board, leaning into a foamy sound signature may be a better option versus simply swapping the switches like i did on the browns board
Bald reveaaal!!?
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