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Here's a tip from people I know that do streaming from their computer: get the microphone off your desk. Find something else to put it on or buy an arm it can attach to. The fact that your device or mic are sitting on your desk where the keyboard clack vibrations are traveling right through amplifies them.

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I have a fancy well-tuned microphone off my desk and on a baffle mount and it still picks up keyboard sounds just fine. It's quieter, but it isn't a perfect cure.

Also really improves the microphone placing problem. On the desk my microphone would always be in my hands way or in front of the monitor and the cable was annoying too. I built a cheap microphone arm out of an Ikea swinging desk lamp (Tertial). It required some time but was a fun project and now I have a matching arm to my desk lamp.

That may still not prevent Cherry MX blues from being picked up by the microphone

Topre, my dude!

Topre is indeed great. The HHKB Pro 2/3 makes an excellent office/WFH board because it's tactile while being relatively silent. Feels nice to use without making a ton of noise.

Hey some of us like the clicky-clack! I optimize around the most common use case, which is me, at home, in my home office. This predates the pandemic and I fully intend it to postdate it as well.

I don't mind a little Foley on a call; I'm either muted anyway, or it doesn't matter. There must be people out there who can type and talk at the same time, but I never got the hang of it.

most of the vibrations from your keyboard to your desk are from bottoming out key strokes (but I guess that in keyboards with low action like a laptop's you need to bottom out).

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