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Rainy 75 sound test: the creamy thock
A Rainy 75 recorded by Techrul, uploaded to Freesound in July 2025 and tagged “creamy” and “thocky”. The uploader doesn't say which switches are inside, so this page doesn't either.
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Short answer: The Rainy 75 sounds like a dark, creamy thock: a low, rounded bottom-out with little high click or rattle, and very little change in character from key to key. This pack is a real Rainy 75 recorded by Techrul and released as CC0, cut into 42 takes in four strength bands. The uploader doesn't name the switches.
Rainy 75 sound test
Each button plays real strikes from one strength band of this recording. Natural mix lets every key vary, like normal typing. Headphones help.
Press a band to hear “rainy thock” typed on Rainy 75 strikes from that band, then type below.
About this recording
- Keyboard
- Wobkey Rainy 75 (version not stated)
- Switches
- Not stated
- Keycaps
- Not stated
- Uploader's tags
- creamy, thocky, rainy75
- Recorded by
- Techrul on Freesound
- Source
- Typing on a rainy 75
- Uploaded
- July 10, 2025
- Original file
- MP3, 48 kHz, stereo, 0:58
- Microphone
- Not stated
- License
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
- In Keyslam
- 42 takes, 5 of them key-up
“I just typed on my Rainy 75 keyboard.” — Techrul, on the Freesound page (checked November 2, 2026)
Why a Rainy 75 thocks
The Rainy 75 comes from Wobkey. It's a 75% layout with 81 keys in a CNC-machined aluminum case, and Wobkey lists its weight at 1.8 to 2 kg. The plate is gasket-mounted: it sits between soft gaskets instead of being screwed to the case, so it can give a little under each keystroke. Wobkey sells Lite, Standard and Pro versions; the Pro has a different plate and different stock switches from the other two. Every version has hot-swap sockets, so owners can change switches without soldering.
Enthusiasts credit that kind of build for the sound people call thock. The usual explanation: a heavy metal case leaves less room for hollow ring, the gasket takes the sharp edge off the bottom-out, and what reaches your ears is mostly the low, rounded part of the keystroke. There's more on the vocabulary in thocky vs clacky keyboards.
Measured from the app's pack files
What the Rainy 75 pack contains, band by band. Peak is the median take's loudest sample; audible length is how long it stays within 30 dB of that peak. Soft to slam spans 12.4 dB. How the bands are made.
| Band | Percentile of strikes | Regular-key takes | Space, Return, Delete | Median peak | Audible length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 8th–30th | 6 | 4 | −13.2 dBFS | 64 ms |
| Medium | 38th–62nd | 6 | 4 | −7.8 dBFS | 73 ms |
| Hard | 70th–88th | 6 | 3 | −4.8 dBFS | 53 ms |
| Slam | 92nd–100th | 6 | 2 | −0.8 dBFS | 44 ms |
What people mean by a creamy keyboard sound
“Creamy” is enthusiast shorthand, not a measurement. It describes a keystroke that sounds smooth and muted: a soft attack with no scratch, ping or rattle. People reach for it with well-damped boards of every kind, so on its own the word says nothing about which switches are inside.
Here it's the uploader's own word, in the recording's tags. In the app, medium-strength takes stay within 30 dB of their peak for 73 ms, the 7th shortest of the 15 packs, and from soft to slam the peaks rise 12.4 dB, the 8th widest of the 15 packs. Both sit in the middle of the lineup, so the thock isn't unusually short or unusually dynamic; what sets it apart is how dark and alike the strikes are.
What this recording adds
Techrul posted 58 seconds of typing in July 2025, the newest recording behind any Keyslam pack, as a 48 kHz stereo MP3 with a one-line description and no microphone, keycap or switch details. The file is stereo, but in the takes the left and right channels match almost exactly. The left-right placement you hear in the app is Keyslam's own, set by where each key sits, and the Stereo by key position switch in the menu turns it off.
Every band of regular keys has six takes, Space, Return and Delete have 2–4 per band, and there are 5 key-up takes. The strikes in this recording resemble each other more than in most of the sessions behind Keyslam's packs, and every take is still a different strike, so you hear an even, steady thock rather than a mix of different-sounding keys. Try the Space bar button too: those takes have a small second tick just after the hit, most likely the stabilizer.
Rainy 75 vs MX Brown and the MacBook keyboard
No pack in the lineup is a close match; these two come nearest in our spectrum measurements. Play each one right after the Rainy 75.
- MX Brown: Cherry's tactile switch on a board its uploader doesn't name, with no mods listed. A plain, rounded clack to set against this board's thock.
- Laptop: the 2018 MacBook Pro's butterfly keys, also low and dull rather than bright, but a shorter, lighter tap where the Rainy 75 gives a full keystroke.
Who it suits
Pick Rainy 75 if you like the deep, muted sound of a modern enthusiast board and want it steady from key to key, for long writing sessions or late typing with the volume low.
Pick something else if you want a click you can hear across the room (MX Blue, Unicomp), more variety between keystrokes, or the rubber-cushioned kind of thock (Topre).
Rainy 75: questions
Which switches are in this Rainy 75?
The uploader doesn't say. The whole Freesound description is “I just typed on my Rainy 75 keyboard.” The Pro version ships with different stock switches from the Lite and Standard, and every version has hot-swap sockets, so the board alone doesn't tell you, and we don't guess.
Who makes the Rainy 75?
Wobkey. Its spec sheet lists a 75% layout with 81 keys, a CNC-machined aluminum case, a gasket mount and a weight of 1.8 to 2 kg, in Lite, Standard and Pro versions.
Why do the Rainy 75 keys sound so alike?
Because the recording does. Its strikes are unusually similar to each other, and Keyslam keeps that: every press take is a different strike from the session, picked across each strength band, not one sample repeated. If you want more variety between keys, a pack like MX Brown or the Unicomp changes more from key to key.
Is the Rainy 75 thockier than Topre?
They thock differently. The Rainy 75's sound comes from a heavy aluminum case and a gasket-mounted plate; Topre's comes from a rubber dome over a spring that cushions the bottom of the press. Play the Topre pack and this one back to back; Keyslam levels both packs to −28 LUFS, so any difference you notice is tone.
Keep exploring
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