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Mad Men and Satisfying Switches (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by iconic_admin@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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This may be a slightly off topic rant…

My wife has been watching Mad Men and I’ll watch it too if I’m in the room. One thing that continues to strike me over and over is how satisfying all the switches and car doors and buttons are. There is a scene is season two where Draper sits at his desk at home and switches on a lamp. The sound it makes and the amount of travel his finger has while punching in the switch is so satisfying. A real ca-chunk.

Every time some closes a car door or hangs up a phone the sound and the look of it is so… just satisfying. It reminds me of when I replaced all the devices in a home I used to own. I used 20amp motor rated switches on all the lights switches because I just love the hard tactile feel and sound they make. Like when that switch closes, you KNOW it’s closed. You don’t need to guess.

Everything is a god damn touch screen now. I miss buttons. Anyway, this is why I like mechanical keyboards.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was the foley artist adding exaggerated realistic so it sounds good on TV.

[–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Well that person or team did a fucking good job.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 7 points 1 month ago

This being the community it is, we're bound to get a hard on for good sou ding/feeling switches. I made a macro pad recently with low profile tactile switches and I often disconnect it from my PC to just sit with it like a fidget toy.

If you're interested in the process of creating what you describe in the TV show, then it is worth watching this video on the unseen world of the foley artist.