so i love keyboards i love mechanical keyboards and keycron's pretty cool and
they sent us the q1 which is their new 75 line it's got a badge up top um i
think you can change that for a rotary knob encoder if you really want to and
then the other big thing about it is it's got these new gadaron phantom
switches which i don't know maybe they're cool maybe they're not
but apparently they're better for RGB only problem is
they're color specific so if you want the blue ones i hope you like clickies
the blue ones are clicky the reds are
i think linear yeah and then uh brown's our largest tactile oh this one's open
already sweet that's always good
quick start guide oh okay so we've got just the standard
stuff here's a switch puller here's a keycap puller
you probably already have a lot of these already um
there's an allen key it's probably for opening it what's this please be gentle and make
sure to align the pins with the socket properly yeah it's pretty easy to bend
pins but it's also pretty easy to just bend them back if you you know jam it in
there by accident laser manual
oh they give you some 3m tape you can always use more 3m tape for sticking
stuff to other stuff oh yeah oh that's
nice and heavy i already like it
so this is the fancy custom LTT one we've got our own little badge and it's
in like orange and white this is the
the browns so there's three different switches um they're these new phantom
switches that are a little transparent i guess so they make your RGB shine
through a little differently the RGB in this board is south facing which
is neat it's usually it's usually north facing at least most of my keyboards are
north facing it means that the RGB led is on the bottom of the switch instead
of on the top flex is like nothing like it's a you know it's aluminum
that's fine yeah there's the little switch right there between uh
Windows and mac so that's cool
the bottom rubber feet are okay i would have liked having those
little flippable ones so that you can change the height or angle uh depending
on what your typing preference is so these phantom switches also come
pre-lubed which i think is new for gatoron they're usually not um
so it's just another nice little touch that you're paying for yeah so the
stabilizers just grew in um i don't know if they've been lubed but
they sound okay they don't they rattle like a little bit but it's
actually not that bad so you can probably just get some dielectric grease
and grease those up yourself if you really wanted to you can take it
dielectric you can
yeah so uh i like lubing and filming
switches and stuff let's take a look and see what this one is i bet you it's the
browns yeah i actually prefer when the case gives me a little bit more
play room like it looks it looks great i like how every key goes right up to the
edge visually but then when you're trying to take them off if you want to
start on a side it's kind of a pain so usually i have to like start with the middle one yeah it's the browns yes
there's not much um to see on the switch itself it's basically your average
switch there's no side clips but the whole thing is hot swap
it looks like there's room for side clips in here so yeah it looks like you
can use pretty much any switch you want well i got some
uh let's throw like a tangerine in there everyone likes the tangerines for some
reason cool yeah all right you can fit
basically whatever you want in there let's take a look at the other ones i actually really want to see the blue one
that's what i'm most excited about i'm not excited about the blue switches i
hate clickies but i bet you it feels really good even if it doesn't sound
really good oh before we do that so you get some replacement screws for the
bottom and they come in this nice like brassy kind of color and then you get some
extra keycaps of course as per usual so
if you want to swap between uh Windows and mac
yeah there's like a Windows key option oh yes this one actually came with mac
keys just command and option and stuff super
this is cool i love when they always come with like little extra ones gotta
love the orange penguin so yeah but the what i'm really curious about is they
offer not only like a coil
um but it's got aviator connectors on it too uh this that's this so this the aviator
connector is this metal doodad here and so what you can do is you just line up
the pins there we go and then you screw it closed
cool so it is purely aesthetic um some
people like them some people don't yeah it's so cool looking basically this
makes it so that say you plug your keyboard in all right where's the plug on this one
right here say you plug your keyboard in and then
you want to just disconnect it but you don't want to have to reach all the way
back into your computer case to like
actually fully plug it out you can just unscrew this pop it open and then
leave that guy there okay let's look at the other ones
oh that is heavy though that is nice see how much it weighs 3.68 pounds that's
pretty good uh it's not super heavy i felt like heavier keyboards like if you
get um some of the really big custom boards with the cnc plates can be like
five almost 10 pounds like i think my friend's keyboard is like seven pounds
or something stupid so they also sent us i mean we'll show you the other boards
too but they also sent us a bunch of different key cap sets i'm not gonna open all of these i'll just open a
couple of them they've got them all on their website so you can go and check them out before you buy them uh what i'm
curious about though is how they've packaged them oh yeah this is nice
oh yeah so these will fit on any switch um
they're just your typical keycaps they'll go on any cross pattern switch
so yeah we got switches and a switch opener it's this fancy one from cameron oh it's
not blue man i was like actually really excited
that this would be the same kind of like pale blue on the box there that's fine
this thing looks cool oh looks great yeah it's 25 so this is 25
dollars that's not bad actually i might i honestly might pick one of these up
these are the blue clickies you can obviously tell
they do feel good i actually really like this i think it's maybe um a little much
extra on the packaging like do they really need to house them in all
these instead of just little bags i don't know yeah so it's like 15 15 for
35 switches which is fine normally you can they can run anywhere from like 50
cents to like a dollar 10 or a dollar twenty per switch cool so now that we got these out of the
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description below another black one i wonder if they only
sent us black ones actually yeah it is right that's the ShortCircuit thing
yeah yeah so it's great they sent us an LTT one
now they've sent us a ShortCircuit version as well i love this custom badge
i don't know um what you can get for options but i know
that you can customize a lot of the rest of the board you can even order a bare
bones kit that is basically just like the pcb the case the foam you have to
order the switches and the key caps and everything else separately it's actually pretty fun putting these together i
would i would very much recommend getting a bare bones kit especially if you already have
your own switches and keycaps i do love the color scheme it's like light blue
with the purple but yeah i want to see if they sent us a different
aluminum housing oh yeah this is that space gray
yeah i actually really like this kind of off-white yellowish tinge
to it within like the gray on gray and the LTT badge up there it looks great
it's like just tactile enough that you feel a bump go
by your preference don't let kikron tell you what to do
do whatever you want that's the beautiful thing about mechanical keyboards it's all preference
and style and whatever you want to do it's an expression of yourself here
we'll try out the browns that all the keyboards came in
a hundred yeah that's lame okay well whatever but it went better than the
wooding yeah that was terrible 90 words a minute if you lube and film your
switches you don't need to film them filming is like a whole extra step that you don't really have to do
but if you lube and film your switches they'll sound and feel better typically
so these are double shot abs keycaps that come with it they feel good i i
prefer abs myself but again it's all kind of feel and preference
my one complaint though and maybe it's just because these keycaps are so opaque
but i hardly notice the RGB on this board like from the overhead i can't
even see it really like i see some minor minor lighting around the side and i was
actually really hoping to see more of that because one of the things they mentioned for these phantom gateron
switches is that since they're that more transparent housing uh the light will
shine through differently so like the browns are supposed to look like coffee when white light is through them the
blue is like this blizzard color or something like that and then
the reds are meant to look like lava or something it's a really nice glow that i
was actually really excited for but you don't see that here
and you can get software for this to customize both the
board and how the keys are laid out as well as the lighting itself you can
customize all that to your heart's content like here let's switch this with
one of my with my kiwi but yeah so it's lighter like
it's minimal but you can see how the light shines through this even better so
i think that um you know you might like the way the brown feels a lot more
that being said i do think that the red and the blue let the RGB shine through a
little more which is nice make your own switches yeah make my own cables i
should just make my own switches right come on yeah regardless of preference though i
think this is a pretty good keyboard and i would totally recommend this so you
can get the bare bones kit if you've already got switches and key caps for 150 that's even better
but then if you don't yet you want to spend a little extra money like 20 dollars you can get it with everything
included overall the kikron q1
i really like it i think that if you're looking for a new
keyboard it's a solid option if you don't want to build yourself thanks for
watching leave a comment below and which ones would you buy do you want the blues
the reds or the browns do you have something else that you'd prefer at home
let us know in the comments