What do I mean by chalky, and please describe that sound to us.

What do I mean by chalky, and please describe that sound to us. We're talking about keyboards and the sound that they make, specifically mechanical keyboards. Yeah, I'll talk about chalky and some other sounds and we'll listen to some of my keyboards and just chat about it because for some reason all the descriptive words we use to describe keyboard sounds gets controversial and throws people for a loop. Thocky, thunky, creamy, clacky, poppy, marbley, HiFi, there are so many words to describe what keyboards sound like. And here's the thing guys, they're all made up! And not only are they all made up, they will mean different things to different people. I'm pretty sure that none of them are actual technical terms. They are made up words by the keyboard community to describe the sounds that we hear and some of them are very well known and we all kind of agree on what they mean, but there's still some subjectivity in there. Most people agree on certain things about words like thocky and creamy and then there are words that we invent on the fly to describe a certain sound like chalky, which I used to describe something that I thought was thocky with a dash of chalk in it, like whiteboard chalk, and so I called it chalky, chalk plus thocky, chalky. And there's probably other people who have used that word before me, but like it's a made up word and not that many people use it, it's chalky. Now the base of the word chalky, thocky does have some loose agreed upon rules around it in terms of the keyboard community and thocky just means an objectively deeper sound. What's deep to one person might not be deep to another depending on all the keyboards you've ever heard in your life. Some things could sound deeper than others, but the objective part of thocky is that it's a deeper sound, it's a deeper pitch just like music on a scale. Notes can be higher, notes can be lower, it's a deeper pitch and you can't really argue that. But you can say that that's thocky to me and that's not thocky to me because everyone has experienced different keyboard sounds and it's all relative and you know, that so there's an objective part and a subjective part to the word thocky. But you shouldn't really call like an objectively higher pitched sound keyboard thocky, that's the point. So they're all made up, some of them have some loose rules, but really what matters is what you hear and what you like. It doesn't really matter what someone else calls something because what matters is how you interpret the sound and if you like the sound that you yourself are hearing. People get really up in arms about it being a certain word and then they'll ask like in a video, is this creamy? And my answer to that question doesn't really matter because what matters is, do you like the sound? And we use the words so that we can describe these like ASMR type of sounds that have different types of qualities and it's fun to do. But at the end of the day, the words really don't matter. So don't get hung up on the word that someone calls a keyboard sound, just ask yourself if you like the sound and that's all you need to worry about. Or sometimes it can be fun to listen to sounds you don't like and honestly the more keyboards you have, the more sounds you do like because when I started this hobby, I was chasing thocky to the end of the earth. I just wanted a thocky sound and now I like a lot of different types of sounds that I never thought I would like as much as I do, so that can happen too. Now let's listen to some examples to answer the question that was asked, chalky. To me, this is like the ultimate chalky keyboard. It's the very first board that I said was chalky. So I call this chalky, thocky with like an edge of chalk. I don't know, that's just that's what it sounds like to me and I have always loved this keyboard, it's the MK75. Now thocky, I'm pulling out my modified keyboard with the Gateron Oil King switches on them because it's kind of like the stereotypical deeper thocky switch. Thocky, and I would say that one even has some chalk to it now that I've listened to it, but it's definitely a deeper pitch than the previous board, so thocky. Now I'm bringing this board out to just show another variation of what I think is thocky but has like a deep clack to it, so I've called this board deep clacky or clocky, clacky and thocky which is kind of a paradox, but that's just what it sounded like to me and like I said, this is all made up. You can call keyboard sounds whatever you want. People are probably going to disagree with you and argue with you. It's fine, it doesn't really matter. So, clocky. There's sounds and it's for fun and enjoyment and that's what it's all about. So don't let people yuck your yum if you think a sound is something or is good or you want to call it something differently and someone says, no, you can't call it that, like it doesn't it really doesn't matter, like just have fun with it. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. Follow, like, share, comment, repost, do all the things, it really helps me out, especially on these longer form long editing process videos like this. Hope this was informative a little bit, I hope that you had fun and I hope that you don't take yourself so seriously when it comes to naming keyboard sounds. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.