{"video_id":"3_fhjRKf1p0","title":"Just the right amount of RGB! - Roccat Vulcan Pro Keyboard","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":466,"segments":[{"start_s":2.24,"end_s":9.599,"text":"that's the intro cat sponsored this video to promote","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.96,"end_s":12.559,"text":"their new vulcan pro it's a keyboard you can tell they're german because they","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.88,"end_s":17.44,"text":"snuck in these little german colors on the side so this is a full 10 key keyboard it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.16,"end_s":25.199,"text":"means there's a numpad let's uh get the box opened up we have a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.96,"end_s":26.64,"text":"wrist rest i love a good peel","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.199,"end_s":30.4,"text":"this looks like it clips in and it actually has a rubber","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.64,"end_s":32.48,"text":"grips on the bottoms to prevent sliding they easily could have not put rubber on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":32.0,"end_s":37.84,"text":"here and just had it on the keyboard so that's kind of a nice touch","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":35.6,"end_s":41.92,"text":"then we've got the keyboard itself with the cable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":38.879,"end_s":43.52,"text":"is this detachable no okay there's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":41.92,"end_s":47.36,"text":"nothing else in the box other than this quick installation guide","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":45.039,"end_s":50.719,"text":"which i don't want to have to read so let's put this aside","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":51.44,"end_s":55.52,"text":"a lot to notice right away first things first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":56.559,"end_s":63.199,"text":"uh this looks 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feet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":88.479,"end_s":93.04,"text":"up that's this is kind of like the more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.52,"end_s":96.56,"text":"normal configuration but it's the key caps that are low profile","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":94.72,"end_s":100.88,"text":"the keys themselves look regular size it's just that they have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":97.92,"end_s":106.0,"text":"taken the actual key cap and just pancake-ized it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":102.96,"end_s":107.36,"text":"flattened it right out i always start by","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":106.0,"end_s":113.119,"text":"typing james is the best these are linear af","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":110.399,"end_s":116.24,"text":"holy can we plug this in okay there's the lights","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":114.0,"end_s":120.32,"text":"usually you're relying on the light passing through the legend of 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an ecosystem from rocket you can get headphones and mouse pads","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":150.72,"end_s":156.4,"text":"that all sync together to give you you know unified RGB experience which gives","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":154.56,"end_s":162.319,"text":"you more FPS and uh better kill death ratios i'm told","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":160.08,"end_s":167.12,"text":"so nice having a numpad i mean okay there's trade-offs i","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":163.519,"end_s":168.879,"text":"always need a numpad this is a a 10 key","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":167.12,"end_s":172.72,"text":"keyboard and i would like that because i do excel and even","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":171.12,"end_s":177.12,"text":"when you're just entering a password or two-factor authentication i hate bouncing around the num","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":175.04,"end_s":179.2,"text":"uh the numbered line over here i love 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600","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":400.96,"end_s":405.759,"text":"that's too light that's cheap um and when it's over a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":404.56,"end_s":412.0,"text":"thousand that's kind of when it's like a chunk 900 respectable so that is pretty much","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":410.0,"end_s":415.44,"text":"it i do want to see how long this cable is can you unplug that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":413.44,"end_s":422.08,"text":"this is a braided cable i think if you get the non-pro it's not braided","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":418.08,"end_s":423.68,"text":"this is 1.8 meters it seems to me pretty","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":422.08,"end_s":426.88,"text":"good and it has the little keyboard picture on there which is always","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":425.12,"end_s":432.319,"text":"uh appreciated when you're at the vacuum machine trying to figure out what the hell corresponds to what","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":429.36,"end_s":435.199,"text":"that's nice uh you got six macro keys right there there's onboard","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":433.599,"end_s":440.8,"text":"memory and processing you take stuff with you i think this is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":437.12,"end_s":442.72,"text":"a pretty good and good looking keyboard","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":440.8,"end_s":445.12,"text":"so if you guys like this please check it out at the link below you can get it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":444.16,"end_s":448.56,"text":"from best buy not sold out there finally something you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":447.28,"end_s":452.16,"text":"can actually buy so thanks for watching ShortCircuit today if you like this video give us a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":451.599,"end_s":455.68,"text":"like give us a subscribe and come back next","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":455.199,"end_s":459.199,"text":"time when i'm gonna review a christmas tree","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":458.319,"end_s":463.52,"text":"holder the little thing at the bottom i like the ones with the spikes that go into","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":461.599,"end_s":467.039,"text":"the wood i'm just joking i'm not going to do that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"that's the intro cat sponsored this video to promote their new vulcan pro it's a keyboard you can tell they're german because they snuck in these little german colors on the side so this is a full 10 key keyboard it means there's a numpad let's uh get the box opened up we have a wrist rest i love a good peel this looks like it clips in and it actually has a rubber grips on the bottoms to prevent sliding they easily could have not put rubber on here and just had it on the keyboard so that's kind of a nice touch then we've got the keyboard itself with the cable is this detachable no okay there's nothing else in the box other than this quick installation guide which i don't want to have to read so let's put this aside a lot to notice right away first things first uh this looks pretty low profile you might not even need this wrist rest but if you did have it is this magnetic is that it literally was that easy it'll come off if you lift it but like magnus that's nice okay yeah that's sweet you get very little wrist extension uh which is one of like the big three ergonomic things that a keyboard can mess you up on uh does it have yeah if you don't like that you like extending then why not just put the feet up that's this is kind of like the more normal configuration but it's the key caps that are low profile the keys themselves look regular size it's just that they have taken the actual key cap and just pancake-ized it flattened it right out i always start by typing james is the best these are linear af holy can we plug this in okay there's the lights usually you're relying on the light passing through the legend of a double shot injected keycap where you've got the clear plastic behind the in this case black and then the light passes through that but in this case they chopped off that part of the keycap you still get the light through the legend and the housing of the switch itself is transparent it's clear plastic so this is a very evenly lit very bright and vibrant board yeah and this is their aimo imo RGB which is like an ecosystem from rocket you can get headphones and mouse pads that all sync together to give you you know unified RGB experience which gives you more FPS and uh better kill death ratios i'm told so nice having a numpad i mean okay there's trade-offs i always need a numpad this is a a 10 key keyboard and i would like that because i do excel and even when you're just entering a password or two-factor authentication i hate bouncing around the num uh the numbered line over here i love having a numpad that's great the trade-off for that is potential shoulder pain uh for ergonomics because you're gonna be like this a lot which is less economic than this it does take out more desk real estate so if you're gaming you might have to move your whole keyboard over to get as much as much mouse real estate as you want holy crap this mouse pad is huge okay my preference is this if that's not your preference go for the ted keyless this is so much different than what i'm used to because i use either tactile or clicky switches and usually you get a tactile feedback when the switch is actuated so as i press it down i'm going to encounter a bump or maybe bottom out on the keypad and that is going to correspond to the signal reaching the system where the letter appears on screen here it's different you want your action to happen immediately like a movement a strafe or something then you want this keyboard because the actuation is way higher up on this with the linear switch it's uh 1.4 millimeters even though the whole key travels like 3.6 millimeters so it's i can feel it when i'm typing it's right at the top it's so immediate that's all i have to do to actuate it this is a an interesting switch this is their titan switch it's a it's a combination mechanical and optical switch so it has the feel of a mechanical switch but actually um the signal is being sent by just a light getting blocked so those are supposed to be faster and if you're a competitive gamer which i'm not i suck but i'll take the edge i'll take anything i can get key stabilities actually pretty rock solid i think they have a novel designed for that that's responsible for that i'm just ripping these things off yeah it looks like they've got like um there's some extra shroud around the typical kind of cherry plus sign you see there on the stem the layout is totally standard you know the american flag on the box there's no wacky like key that's shorter than normal they've got an aluminum top plate here now one of the differences between the pro and the non-pro number one the big one is optical mechanical switches but the other thing is the top plate they also have an aluminum top plate on the non-pro but it isn't stealthed out and blacked out this is just black all around on the other one you're gonna have like a kind of a chrome edge on it and everyone knows stealth is more premium this is pretty rigid there's not a lot of depth deck flex here for especially for a a 10 key a lot of the time you can feel like oh this is such a stiff keyboard that's great but it's a 10 kilos or even like a 60 or something like a really small small one and those small ones they barely flex even if they're just cheap plastic lots of rubber feet on the bottom not just a couple strips but like the whole bottom at least two-thirds of the top here and even on the feet and both sides of the feet when the feet are closed there's a rubber strip and up top it's just binary up or down we have some media buttons on the top row that's pretty standard you can function calculator bam now we what you don't always see is a knob for volume this one happens to be ratcheted and doesn't have a top or bottom it just goes goes goes then you've got big buttons for mute those are really nice okay it looks like there's some indicators down here there's a game mode game mode of course makes it so that when you hit the Windows key the menu doesn't pop up that can be uh really disruptive in a game another thing about these switches in particular as opposed to the non-pro these ones are ready for 100 million keystrokes on the non-pro they're 50 million keystrokes uh why don't we weigh this thing with our special scale i'll get this braided cable up off the table for the weight 900 grams even a kind of a good middle weight i would say like when you're at like 600 that's too light that's cheap um and when it's over a thousand that's kind of when it's like a chunk 900 respectable so that is pretty much it i do want to see how long this cable is can you unplug that this is a braided cable i think if you get the non-pro it's not braided this is 1.8 meters it seems to me pretty good and it has the little keyboard picture on there which is always uh appreciated when you're at the vacuum machine trying to figure out what the hell corresponds to what that's nice uh you got six macro keys right there there's onboard memory and processing you take stuff with you i think this is a pretty good and good looking keyboard so if you guys like this please check it out at the link below you can get it from best buy not sold out there finally something you can actually buy so thanks for watching ShortCircuit today if you like this video give us a like give us a subscribe and come back next time when i'm gonna review a christmas tree holder the little thing at the bottom i like the ones with the spikes that go into the wood i'm just joking i'm not going to do that"}