1stplayer Bullet Hunter mk 6 review (Outemu dust-proof blue) 

Finally an outemu board! I know you are going to hate It!!

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1stplayer regrets it sooo bad that they have approached you^^

A note on the hotswap sockets: They're Outemu's own sockets. They're found on many cheap Chinese boards, such as E-Element/Mechanical Eagle/GranVela boards. They're really only meant to be compatible with Outemu switches, and if you try inserting Cherry, Gateron, or Kailh-made switches, you'll bend one of the contact pins. This is because the corresponding pin on Outemu's switches are slimmer, so the socket is narrower to ensure proper contact. It's possible to get other MX-style switches into the sockets by crimping or shaving down the one pin (the other pin fits fine and isn't a problem) but this isn't an ideal solution. Not only does it require essentially mutilating your switches, but if you make the pin too thin, it won't make proper contact with the socket and won't register keystrokes. Keep it just a bit too thick, and the socket may accept it, but it will wind up with the death grip mentioned in this video, which as you can see will result in damaged switch housing when you attempt to pull it out. So yeah, pretty well crap. Hopefully Kailh-style hotswap sockets, much like full RGB lighting, start working their way down into cheapo boards soon and obliterate these shitty Outemu sockets for all time.

"Hey, let's send a keyboard to Chyrosan22, it's gonna be great!" - 1stplayer 😂😂😂😂

Ok about the software, I had a Redragon Yama keyboard and it uses the exact same software. A lot of these cheap keyboards use this exact same software. From what I remember in order to apply a macro to keyboard the "Light" tick box must be unticked.

2:27 Actually, in the budget mechanical market, those Outemu hotswap sockets are far more common than Kailh's. Almost every new Outemu keyboard out threre has 'em, and Outemu is pretty much the MX Clone switch you'll see by default on almost anything these days. 4:21 Also, yes, I've always assumed that the cheap doubleshots we get out of China use a cheaper method of doubleshot molding that makes the stenciled font necessary to simplfy and lower the cost. It's the only way I think how pretty much all cheap keyboards these days can afford to include them

The breaking switches is an issue with Outemu's cheapest switches. The enthusiast line (sold by hbheroinbob on reddit) doesn't break when pulled out of those sockets. Also worth noting that Outemu hot swap sockets are not compatible with most other MX switches (except for BSUN switches from what I've heard).

Software is the same as for Redragon boards. You bind macro by clicking the key you want to replace on the board's image. To avoid light menu error and light stuck you simply should remember to hit OK to close the software rather than exit it. To restart it after closing with X you should start the program again as administrator and you'll be fine. It's not that hard to tame it really, just common sense and grey matter. Hope it helped some who failed to getting it right.

i actually used to have one of these and yes , it was really shit. but just saying the macro system is bullshit but i did figure out how to bind macros. first of all u need to save the macro and then you click the key where you want to bind the macro to then just add in the macro.

I own this keyboard. The typing is really harsh unless you lube or replace the switches. I took this keyboard apart, and all of the switches about 2yrs after I bought it. it was really dusty under the keycaps but none of the switches had dust in them.

After i started watching ur videos i fell in love with OG cherry doubleshots. I finally found an old broken cherry board with some german ISO keycaps (i am german tho) that still look pretty good for 15 bucks. Thank you for opening my eyes to both value and quality!

1stplayer regrets it sooo bad that they have approached you^^

It seems that software sucks but the hardware appears to be pretty good for the price.

On there you see the last time that any manufacturer send a keyboard to hin.

I refuse to recommend Outemu prebuilts like this one simply for the quality of the switches. Within 3 months of regular use, just typing and some light gaming, *8* of the 87 keys on my keyboard had chatter. I've heard similar reports from several others. That's not to mention the ping, which is somehow worse than gaterons or cherries, the wobble, and the sound. My default recommendation is a cheaper hotswap like a GK61, or a DZ6xRGB, 1up HSE, etc. On a different note, I'd love for you to review T1 switches. They're currently in stock on primekb, and while the shipping may a bit painful, I feel you may like them. If you or someone else can lube them, it makes them even better.

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You have a very calm satisfying voice and the way you cursing is perfect

Hi Thomas, just discovered your channel. You have some great content! I saw your various "Top X" videos, and unfortunately everything there is pretty hard to find, especially where I live. Would you consider doing a "Top X keyboards (or switches)" video for things that you can buy now in shops? I think that would be quite useful.

I hate when you do "average" keyboards reviews, they don't cause enough cursing as the bad ones and not enough praise like the good ones

I like the features that seem to work okay, but those switches sound downright crunchy. Thanks for the video, sir!

Awesome! Is that the new Razer Gamery Gamerson xp56000 Fluid injected holo switch gamer keyboard? I can't wait to get one and download the 16 Gb gamer software file for gamers.

hey this seems like 99% the same as my RedDragon Outemu Blue keyboard.. even the software, the scrolling wheel, everything.. except mine has a Rec button for macros

I remember back in the day when both Kailh and Outemu were considered to be the lowest-tier Cherry MX clone manufacturers. Meanwhile, Kailh is revolutionizing switch design and quality (not to mention variety) whereas Outemu has remained the same...the red-headed stepchild that annoys everyone in the room with no signs of ever changing.

the hotswap mechanism that outemu uses is too tight for any other switch other than outemu so you cannot replace them for better switches

Weird how a 45 dollar Tecware Phantom can get lighting right but these keyboards can't.

My only question is why does it have dedicated media buttons *and* function media buttons in the F row? Seems weird.

I'm here for the colorful invectives. Best on RU-vid.

Looks like a Corsair fucked a GMMK.

Hey about the retooled Cherry MX Black, when will you do a review about it?

10:06 hahahahahahahaha

GMMK's software is basically the exact same, in fact there are many similarities between the two keyboards. Either the lighting is being edited or else the macros are. It seems like there's some generic code for the software that many manufacturers use and it's dogshit. Why won't keyboard manufacturers just let you code whatever lighting/macros or other functionality yourself rather than giving you a toolset designed by a disturbed child?

To create macros on these kinds of keyboards (as far as Redragon goes), you have to uncheck the light box and then double click one of the images of the keys on the board image. The software is so fucking garbage and I ended up having to modify a lot of it myself to work properly.

The purpose of stem with side walls is to eliminate key wobble, especially at mid-stroke. It has nothing to do with preventing dust entry.

This seems like the same Chinese oem behind my latest and favourite Redragon keyboard (surara) that I modded with outemu ice switches. Backlight modes and software seem related. Would love to see you review the redragon surara pro featuring outemu optical blue switches with some sort of infrared switch mechanism. Not much info out there yet on those switches.

think the reason for the stenciling of the keycaps is the reversal of the order that the parts of the cap are made. i believe in standard (non stenciled) keycaps the legend is molded 1st, then the rest of the cap is poured around it. with the stenciled ones it looks like the outside of the cap is molded 1st, then the transparent legend is poured in behind it.

Hero level product review. No punches pulled. Love it.

best budget mechs are red dragons change my mind

My guess on the ordering of the lighting options: the names are translated and are ordered relative to the internal 普通话 titles。 Given my experience with Chinese, you should be impressed the options are not some some form of Chinglesh style gibberish. When I was in 大连 this last year we had to go to the Cadillac dealership and as we were driving it back towards service area I noticed that sign above it read in bright bold painted letters, "Mainfenance Bay", and that is hardly the worst example. Government signs are typically by far the most humorous. Clearly translated using Google... sorry 百度 and then carved into wood or marble without anyone that actually knows English ever proofreading it to see if it makes sense.

Okay so I am a new subscriber so maybe you have covered this before, but I currently use two Logitech G413 carbon keyboards on my development setup and I know it is blasphemous to utter this... but I like them. (They monocolor version is cheap here, they make a nice sound, and backlighting is great for us that prefer to dwell in the dark corners of the world.). That said, seeing your review on the Wootie piqued my interest in maybe expanding my keyboard horizons. However as to the reason behind this comment, I used to own a previous generation Romer G board that had the full RGB setup and I never noticed the sort of RGB spread you mentioned in your review. Maybe it is just my eyes or it was there and I never noticed it. Regardless, hearing you mention it again and pulse modulation issues in reference to this board made me wonder: could that sort of color banding separation potentially be the result of them being designed for US power grid? I know that may sound ludicrous, but your statements reminded me of how the differences in grid frequency made some games run slower in PAL regions. You would think that any such issues would be cleaned up by the power supply and on board USB hardware, but that may also depend on the quality, type, age, and/or design of those components. So with that in mind, I am curious, have you ever tried plugging one of the offending rainbow shitting boards into a laptop or other system to see if it exhibits those same issues? Again maybe crazy, but in my experience laptops tend to have a greater amount of electronic isolation and so I would be curious to know what effect trying them on a different machine might have if any.

My goodness, what an absolute crap keyboard. the software is a joke.

that's the exact same software as redragon uses

Came for the review...... Stayed for the Voice......

Hey nice video Won’t you review Zeal switches (Zealios,Zilents,Tealios and healios) ? That would be so awesome to see you review them (you will have to use your hotswap board though) I don’t even mind sending you my keyboard with lubed Zilents v2 if you want to review as long as you send it back in the same shape as it was

This is practically identical to my redragon k556 devarajas

This exact design and functionality + some aditional macro rubber dome keys can be found in the Redragon Manyu. I can't believe how similar they look. The Redragon use their 'own' Redragon switches witch appear to be 1:1 mx cherry clones - I'm not sure exactly who manufactures these for Redragon. The main difference apart from the extra macro buttons is the fact that the Redragon has a plastic enclosure, it doesn't feature 'floating' keys.

5:19

I saw the words outemu and blue in the title and I knew you would fucking hate it

Lol looks like the same software I have to us for my redragon k552 plus mine is in portoguese which I don't speak, because it's so hard to find that software and the only one I could find supporting iso was the portoguese one.

Dustproof switches? I work at a garage and the keyboard for the test bench is a rebranded Monterey with Alps whites, about 20 years old. The caps are dirty, but the board is working perfect. Will grab it at the first chance I get.

I wish i could found your channel sooner I ordered mechanical keyboards with my privet brand and i couldn't do it very expensive so i went with outamo brown switches, i was very sceptical about it, it might be shitty, can you recomend me with chinese mx knock off, of some low noise tactile, but actually good switch to use for next order? It could really help Thanks

Lubed Halo clear stems on Outemu ice v2 switches (teal housing) are as good "tactile" Outemu switches as you get. I'd rather use any other housing on this mod cause Outemu switches are just meh IMHO. Any luck getting halo stems on gateron/kailh/greetech housings and which ones are fit for a noice holy panda/zealous v2 frankenswitch for < $1 / switch?

If you or anyone could help me out I’d much appreciate it. My apologies as this question doesn’t relate to the posted video. I’m trying to find a switch to use that is most similar to a particular white alps clone. I wish I could figure out which clone it is but there’s either no markings on them or some have, I believe like a number 45 (I could be wrong). The main thing these switches do is it seems they activate pretty high, before the click. They are fairly stiff as well, as in that they require a little more pressure to push than say a matias white alp. These switches were used in guitar hero Wii guitars for the strum bar. When the strum bar gets flicked down it rebounds up and activates the up strum & vice versa. So the spring is strong enough to spring the strum bar to activate the other switch when flicked and the activation point of the switch must be pretty high for the rebound to activate it. Hope I’m explaining this ok. Or If I could bend the internal leaf of a white alps switch to make it activate higher then that could also work....?

a very important thing for keyboards is having a proper switch pulling tool and not the pre included one, even for the gmmk keyboard. i hurt my gateron brown switches by useing the included switch puller while just like the basic novelkeys puller was 10x easier

Another similar priced board is the redragon K580 vada. It is almost identical but better rgb and the keys witches come out better. It is about $10 more but all around slightly better. And a better fount for the keycaps.

when are you going to review a redragon keyboard

The website is back, and the bs marketing hasn't changed.

Less "Bullet Hunter" and more "Flak Magnet", it seems.

I bought some full RGB keyboards from Monoprice for $35. They feel kind of dreadful. You would love them!

Hey, I was wondering. Don't you have an old IBM? If it's a 3rd generation Model M, please show me if the waterproof holes work?

Dude the gmmk is double the price and it has the same shit software

hmmmm razer-like keycaps on a corsair-like keyboard......

You should review the Kailh Blue switches, they're just like Cherry MX Blues but cheaper (I need a good sound test with those switches, that's why btw)

Those Outemu hotswap sockets have tighter holes than the kailh ones, so only outemu switches can be put in them unless you tinker with the switch pins.

oh god that software is a literal ripoff if not stolen of the motospeed software

Maybe if this was $25 USD I'd give it a look, but at $50 USD it's a pass for me.

Surprised there was no mention of 'HIDEOUS!!!!' when describing the software package ;)

Lol, it uses the same shitty software that the CK108 uses.

Lol my sofware is same and its poop too lol, fck me😂

Generic gaming keyboard #147

Oh my God, those Outemu blue switches will wake the dead!

11:39 for a typing demonstration you're welcome other mobile users :p

what's the name of the white keyboard?

Not even worth your time. Cheap Chinese clone = pass.

Are they Cherry or Costar stabilizers because I prefer Costar way more than mushy Cherry

About the software: Welcome to the wonderful world of (usually crap) UX!

The volume roller is fuckin top

Yooo, hold up a second. That software is incredibly similar to the GMMK software. The 3 profiles being separate buttons, the separate macro button, the "colorful" checkbox, how the keyboard on screen doesn't accurately reflect the actual keyboard. You know, I'm actually pretty sure the Lighting modes are the same and in the same order, just with different names.

Yes I am leaving these comments on other mechanical keyboard fanlike youtuber that mechanical keyboard are really getting cheap. And that makes sense because it became mainstream. Btw if people would buy topre as much as these it would also become mainstream XD also men there is so much competition between amnufacturers. For example khail and gaterona already becoming premium brands with new swutches box amd zeal and outemu became budget premium switch. Cherry should create more new switches because these comapnies are quite into the market Update: And yeah one thing is that some of these manufacturers should ask someone else to make software ... XD Updateeee: Hey you cam chamge macros by turning off light box. That's why it exists in the first place... if they are into these boxes things couldn't they just change name of the mode instead of showing that box. That bullshit because these kind of software feels done by 11 grade sudent, who is first year into c++ programming. Or someone who has little to no experience about UI. I know that it's annoying and I was looking for macros also like for hour and then I have found this solution.

Those are outemu hot swap sockets. Cherry and kailh switches tend to damage the sockets, so its a 1 swap deal if you don't use the right switches.

Looks really similar to the GMMK software - doesn't it? I only opened that once before realizing I needed a usb to usb converter go get tmk on it to get some basic functionality, but it looks really similar. I think.

I mean, it can be very much redeemed. It just requires probably going back to the drawing board.

Pingy as hell, yes, but it doesn't sound all that bad. Great review as always.

It sucks don't buy it guys

Media keys layered under the F keys? Why would you need those on a board which already has dedicated media keys?

So what switches are used in the intro?

Those generic boars used by lots of brands (Redragon being just one of them) are very intersting in the entry level but kinda pointless above 50USD. However, I can't deny the fact that here in my land (Brazil) they do managed to get some good options at reasonable prices. Yes, the font Redragon uses is pretty ugly but they managed to offer the first ABNT2 double shot keycaps ever. They even did the 'Ç' key correctly using the same (ugly) font instead of just putting a totally different font on the 'Ç' like many cheap mechanical keyboards does here. The big names never cared about making us a mechanical keyboard with ABNT layout (Thermaltake did the ABNT2 version of the MEKA G1 years ago, even respecting the correct abnt2 number pad layout having the small + and . keys instead of the big + key used today in all mechanical abnt2 keyboards but 1still no doubleshot keycaps), logitech to this date (I might be wrong) has just few abnt2 options like the G413 with those crap romer-g switches, no double shot caps and still costs 50usd more than any redragon or motospeed (just to name a few). About the removal of the switches: I broke three switches trying to remove them with the supplied tool (redragon kala). I figured out that I could simply disassemble the keyboard and push the switches from their botton to a safer removal. It worked and it managed to loose it too. Now I can remove the switches with the tool without destroying them. Now I consider myself to get a batch of those outemu dustproof since it will not require me to mutilate the switches' contacts.

7:34 Ah the age old art of knifing a keyboard.

make a review for the ajazz ak33 its even cheaper and i thinks its an interesting keyboard

I've come across a few prebuilts with dustproof blues and reds in them and have been pleasantly surprised with how smooth they were. Relatively similar to KS-8 Gateron switches.

Why so mean :p

6:00 my sides holy sh*t

The media keys aren't identical, there's no stop button

6:37 Is that a Hako True switch?

Jailhouse Blues?

The fps is quite HIIIDEOUSS

crap

hi

Cool

1.25x speed. (reminder)