Redragon K556 RGB LED Backlit Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, 104 Keys Hot-Swap Mechanical Keyboard w/Aluminum Base, Upgraded Socket and Noise Absorbing Foams, Quiet Linear Red Switch

So this is my 4th Redragon product. I have a mouse, which is still great after 4yrs, got a short red switch mechanical gaming keyboard which is great for traveling, and then I picked up the mouse/keyboard combo for my work setup at the office cause I wanted something better than the stock setup. Well they keyboard on that wasn’t mechanical, so I ordered this one and it is AMAZING. I got the brown switches and this thing is like butter, I love typing up emails and doing any other type of typing work now just cause of how fun this board is. I imagine it would be great for gaming as well since that’s what this is aimed at. Highly recommend and will forever be a Redragon customer.

The keyboard is great, types really well and doesn’t make an extraneous amount of sound. But if you want to keep the LEDs always on and not some ridiculous pattern that’s distracting, you have to download their software. Included in it is a file called HidServ.DLL. Normally that’s included by Windows, but the DLL included with the ZIP file downloaded has extreme anti reverse engineering tactics applied like encrypted strings and checking if a debugger is attached. If you download the software, delete HidServ.DLL as it’s not even needed by the EXE to run at all.

I am meticulous when it comes to testing things out and I will detail some things that really bug me. I hate small keys. I saw that this was a couple of inches longer than my Wisfox and had hoped that this translated to larger keys. Nope. At least the spacing between keys is quite good for their size. This keyboard feels great if you are FACING it straight on (Im sort of an angle typer, if that makes sense) though I have to be really careful to hit the correct keys. Im a bit impaired and wider keys would make things so much easier for me. Maybe Redragon or ChalengeUSA has a keyboard that has larger keys with the same functionality? Please let me know. Edit: 12/03/2020: I had a lot of uncomfortable moments last night while playing Cold War. The keys just didnt feel right (again, too small for my needs). The spacebar was a little wonky which I use a lot. Software functions are great but phsycally feeling this keyboard is a fail for me. I will be returning. So sick of shopping for keyboards, its been a nighmare. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ If youre wondering, YES, you can assign colors to individual keys. But regarding that: A very annoying issue is that the keys have a blatant magenta hue to them instead of being just clear and the color choices are quite sadly affected by this. I detest this. I want white to look WHITE (I kind of need white keys for some things). Brown and orange look EXACTLY the same due to the magenta tinting. Naturally, my phone camera doesnt show the magenta tint. Gotta love android phones! I am REALLY worried about the etching on the keys wearing off. Some of the letters are missing a tiny bit at the bottom. The bottom part of the A and P keys on the capslock look only partially inscribed. Several of the numbers have a gap in either the top or the bottom so arent technically complete characters. Maybe a poorly chosen style choice? The G key (amongst others) has dark spots on part of the key making it look like someone had ink run out while writing the letter. The Ps on the Numpad look like partial letters. The Numpad page up/page down keys just have very badly done letters all around. After looking over several keys closely with my trusty reading glasses, I can see a dark area where its supposed to be bright so the machine that printed them just wasnt exact and misprinted parts of them. The brown switches are slightly louder than expected though they felt very nice. I put O-Rings on them and it dampened sound a hair. I tried putting TWO O-Rings on them but the keys wouldnt stay on. I checked the spacing and why 2 rings caused that to happen I have no idea. Another reason to double-up the O-Rings is if you want to raise certain keys like WASD so its harder to miss them in heated FPS games. Anyway, pending them offering me a similar keyboard with BIGGER keys I am sticking to this keyboard for the time being.

El diseño y las luces me encantan, y se siente muy bien las teclas.

In brief: Pro -Customizable switches and key caps; field replaceable with no need to solder -Comes with several blue switches to set for special keys/try out a different switch type -Feels and looks like good overall build quality. Nice metal base with the best risers I have seen (things to raise the back of the keyboard to give an angle) Con -minor rough spot on the chamfer on front of base, dosent look pretty and I smothed it out to ensure that I would accidentally get cut (unlikely it didnt feel sharp but better safe than bloody). -Backlighting, I didnt see a way to turn it off other than to dim it but likely just overlooked where it says how to do that. -Personal preference would have been to have a removable USB cable instead of an permanent cable Overall/Review I am having to do much more typing lately to update system documentation and after using a mechanical keyboard while visiting one of my remote offices I decided if I was going to be tortured I should at least be tortured in comfort. Thus I decided that I wanted a mechanical keyboard the problem is that I havent really used any keyboard other than what is on my laptop or comes standard with a computer when you order it from a company. Thus the journey of buying a mechanical keyboard began. Not having much experience with all the different aspects of a mechanical keyboard, particularly switch types, I decided that if I wanted one I had to find one that would allow me to change switch types fairly easily so that I could try out different types as the desire overcame me. This keyboard fit the bill and even provided some extra switches to use of a different color (user experience) than was on there which I love. By doing that it let me see that I was right to go for brown over blue switches because I think that the extra clicky noise would have been distracting for me and possibly my neighbors. Secondly the fact that the switches used are modeled after the Cherry MX, it opens up a world of keycaps to chose from for further customisation down the road. The overall construction of the keyboard is solid, and as I stated the only issue I had was a rough spot along the from chamfer that was smoothed out with a few gentle strokes of 600 grit sandpaper. The only other negative I have is that the cable provided, while seeming to be of high quality, permanently attached. This would have been nice so that I could transport it easier and unless I am mistaken will likely be the part that breaks first, years down the road. The weight of the keyboard is wonderful, its rubber(?) feet are very grippy, it is easier to lift it up and move it over trying to push it around your desk. Furthermore the feet, those things near the top of the keyboard that can be flipped out to raise it up if you want, are the most solid ones I have seen and if they get broken I think it will be due to someone trying to break them. The RGB is smooth, both in movement and color transitions and are easy to switch among the various presets and to turn off just dim completely. Not an overall fan for everyday usage, but it is useful for darker environments. Reason I gave only 4 stars is that I think having a replaceable USB connector in place of the permanent connection would have been nice and I dont care much for the key caps. I feel like the key caps are slightly narrower than I like and the font on them is somwehat distracting but the quality of the caps themselves so far seems excellent. The caps have no visible manufacturing marks visible and other than feeling slightly narrower and have a sharper edge that I like/am used to, feel very nice on the finger. I really like my purchase and feels so far feels like a solid keyboard which I can modify in the future should i get the itch to try a different switch.

It is the best keyboard Ive ever had. Love the clickiness and love the colored lights. The price was great too. I consider this a win win for me. My first mechanical keyboard, dont think Ill ever go back to the old cheap ones I used to buy.

The Good: 1. Love the switches. They are not as loud as my older keyboard and feel good to the touch. 2. The light from the keyboard is very good and is adjustable to 5 levels (0 to 4) 0 being off. 3. The keyboard feels built really well and the base feels very heavy and solid. 4. It doesnt take up a lot of room on the desktop like some RGB monsters. The Bad: 1. The software leaves much to be desired and you really cant customize it without it. (more later) 2. The default presets in the hardware is FIXED. You really cant change it. For example I like my default to be an always on red on all keys. You cant have that. There is a preset you can get to with the solid color on it but it only cycles through 4 colors and red wasnt one of them so youd have to go use the software to fix it. 3. The little legs on the bottom are too short. This might be a more personal preference, but for me I would want a slightly higher incline. It isnt terrible, but I noticed it right away. 4. Brightness is global, even with the software, you cant have specific keys be brighter/dimmer than others. Now a word about the software. There are 3 profiles you can set, but the import export doesnt export all settings and that is a big problem. The main reason I switched over from my older RGB was because this one has software to be able to customize the keyboard. Unfortunately I ran into basically the same issue as my old one. You can setup a profile for gaming that has specific keys colored to your liking with the coastal light profile. And under that light profile you can select FPS, MMO, MOBA, or RTS sub-presets. From there you can customize each key color to your choosing. Now here is the big problem. I made a custom FPS one for a game on Profile 2. Saved it via the export command. Now I go to the sub light presets and choose MMO for to make one for another game on Profile 2. It wipes my FPS sub-preset back to default but that should be fine since I exported my settings (youd assume that right?). So I go import my saved settings, and they arent there. The Import/Export doesnt work!! So that means instead of being able to make custom light settings for specific games, you can make at most have 3. I still dont know if the settings will persist after a cold boot since I havent rebooted my machine yet. So overall the keyboard is good given the price, the keys feel good, but it is sorely lacking in customization capabilities. If you are like me and was hoping to have the ability to save and load custom keyboard maps for specific games, this product CANNOT do that. So why is my overall rating still 4 stars? Simply because of the build quality, the switches, and the partial customization ability does make the keyboard very usable. The macro and key changing ability is still very useful for older games that dont let you map keys via software or a settings file. So I could only really take off 1 star for the inability of it to save my custom key light profiles.

This is my second Reddragon KB (previously a Mitra) and Im totally satisfied, even buying an used device. Great quality. Im using it for code development.

First off, this was recommended to me as a good all around keyboard. As a touch typist this is important. Unfortunately my daughter fell in love with the colours and and the sturdiness, so I will have to reorder, and this review will never be complete :D. We are becoming a Redragon family. We tried it with games, papers, and a few other things. THE GOOD: Casing and deck are aluminum, and this quality shows. Yes, real metal with brushed accents, top and sides. VERY solid. Its enough to not flex, and it does not slide around on your desk. Some of Redragons more expensive models dont even have metal cases (why?)! Software has lots of adjustments to colours, brightness, patterns, as well as to responsiveness. Cable is very thick, and long enough if you want to put it in your lap. Keycaps are rounded, and comes with a few spares, as well as a removal tool. Its not too noisy, but very responsive. THE NOT SO GOOD: Adjustment feet dont go very high at all, and only have one setting. The plastic that the keycaps are made with started to go shiny after only 1 WEEK of usage (why?). No wrist rest, but this is minor issue. We purchased the brown key model, but honestly did not really feel of any much tactile response, but we had not used brown before. Additionally, the keys work very near the top, so if you hesitate, or are a light typist, you will click before you want to. Regardless, since the more expensive Redragon models are said to have less metal and more plastic, we may be getting another one of these instead. There is just something about real metal that cannot be beat. Its usually more sustainable.

This keyboard works great for me. I needed a lighted keyboard for better visibility. I love the many color settings. The construction is so sturdy I doubt if it will ever wear out! If anything on it does, there are replacements readily available.