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review this is the ducky shine three and as with any unboxing we're gonna start
with the box itself and the content so the first thing you find is cardboard
and oh wait no there's actually a keyboard in here that'll be important
later in all likelihood we've also got some accessories including but not
limited to a wasd set of keycap
replacements all right we've also got a keycap puller in order to apply said
replacements if we're not happy with the black ones that are already on there we've also got a usb a2 mini b cable
that's wrapped up in a nice little cable management thing happens to be gold plated although that doesn't really
matter and we've got a replacement space bar if we don't like the snake graphic
on the stock space bar last but not least so i guess we are limited to the
things that i just found we have a registration thing for your warranty as
well as a user's manual which you will need
so the keyboard itself i mean what is there to say that every
other reviewer in the world hasn't said about ducky the build quality is
immaculate there's almost no flex to the thing whatsoever it is extremely heavy
the keys have a very satisfying sound to them just like you'd
expect with a mechanical keyboard but it's even better with a solidly built
mechanical keyboard and of course there's the stuff that you can't see
such as the dual layer pcb that's inside and the uv coated laser printed abs key
caps so those are pretty darn good as far as keycaps go there are better ones
out there but they're generally considered to be aftermarket options on
the back of the unit we find four rubber pads so that it doesn't slip around on
you as well as two little risers if you prefer to have a bit more of an angle to
your keyboard we've also got cable routing options for the detachable usb
cable so it can come out straight to the right or to the left whatever you prefer
we also find our serial number on the serial number on the back as well as
some dip switches more on those in just
a moment all right so while this might not be the most user friendly way to
implement different you know control changes what these four little dip
switches do is they disable the Windows key so it doesn't have like a gaming
mode button on the front you can actually do that with a dip switch on the back you can actually swap control
and caps lock you can swap Windows and
alt placements and if you want to to be
adventurous you can put it into demo mode which might be more useful for
shopkeepers and less useful for individuals who are buying the thing
what demo mode does is it cycles through all the different lighting modes and
stuff like that without actually any usb data going back and forth it just makes
it take in power so it doesn't actually work in demo mode all right Linus it's a
ducky so we know it's extremely well built but tell me about the features all
right so it's available in either a 104 key or a 10k list that is to say without
the number pad layout it's available in a variety of colors although we've only
got blue here today so blue red green white magenta and orange for the led
backlights and it's available in the kind of the standard for key switch type
so that's brown red black and
blue that nice clicky sound it has shortcuts for media keys although i
think what ducky means by that is volume up volume down and mute because there's
no play pause or or track skip or anything like that it also has and these
are classic calculator computer email
and internet shortcuts in the top right i actually kind of love that other than
that most of the labels on the keys are just for controlling lighting and other
advanced functionalities such as changing the repeat rate or how fast
characters will appear when you hold down a key and changing the repeat delay
or how long until repeating begins in practice a repeat delay above about 2x
caused me to double press spacebar just while i'm typing but your mileage may vary on
these very cool functionality there either way particularly for gaming
overall the configuration is completely driverless but you will need the manual
to set it up it's not too bad though i figured most of it out in about five
minutes all right but that's just the regular features what about the lighting this is
a shine well we'll start with the seven different modes which you cycle through
by using function and f10
number one which you just saw was a hundred percent on that self-explanatory
you can adjust the brightness down here with the up and down arrows and function
and that's about it in breathing you can use the arrow keys to adjust both the
speed and the maximum brightness of the breathing effect the range is very wide
and it should please pretty much anyone in wave mode you can adjust the speed
and of the wave but not the actual brightness of the wave so that's what
you can see right now and in snake marquee mode this one i actually quite
like you can change just the speed of the snake but not the
brightness and it crawls around on the keyboard like that in reactive mode you
can change both the pressed and non-pressed brightness so you can either
have the keys turn off and then fade back in as you type or you can have them
be off and then turn on and fade away as you type i think this one and ripple are
my personal favorites speaking of ripple both it and aurora are cool modes that
send out patterns when you press on particular keys you can adjust the speed
of either effect but only ripple can have the brightness adjusted so this one
right here is aurora which always runs on full brightness so you can see it
sends out horizontal waves now the space bar is a bit of a unique situation it
only has uh or rather it has one blue
led which matches the color of your keyboard and it has two RGB leds one on
either side of the blue one so you can change the color effects of the space
bar by using the insert home and page up
along with function to achieve pretty much any color you could possibly want
so it's r g and b and you can mix them
in whatever way you find most pleasing or turn those ones off and then another
option that you'll have by using the custom configurations here so let's go
ahead and press function record one where we can turn on
or off whichever keys on the keyboard we want so we can turn on
everything let's say okay let's say for example you guys imagined so function
record one let's say you guys imagined that i turned on everything except the
space bar so i can either have that middle one illuminated or not
illuminated and it's totally up to me whether to have it have some of the
original color or none of it at all and then you can recall those by using so
let's go ahead and stop recording by just pressing function cm1 or cm2 and
that's on the f 11 and f12 keys now if you're anything
like me and particularly the first time around if you get just overwhelmed at
some point and you just want to go back to stock all you have to do is hold down
both of the Windows keys for three seconds the keyboard flashes and boom
you are back to factory settings and you can start tinkering again so the
conclusion for this is pretty simple if you're looking for an extremely
well-built keyboard that's available in a wide variety of configurations at
least some of which you're bound to find pleasing and you want the best lighting
features then i guess just go buy one with that said the shine 3 is not cheap
it's well over a hundred dollars and given the spotty retail store
availability you'll likely have to get it shipped to you so you're probably
looking at a hundred and fifty dollar plus or minus investment it's probably
going to last forever however so as long as you have the discipline to not run
and buy more mechanical keyboards um it
really is addictive then you may be able to justify the
expense for the faster more satisfying typing experience that a mechanical
keyboard provides and you can treat yourself to one that is particularly
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