just remember,
faking out your speakers to sound 'hyped', without balancing them with the room,
and knowing how they translate,
will send you down the rabbit hole.
 

igiwigi
Hi
I can see when mixing that flat response speakers do that job. In my little home studio I have a old pair of Tapco S5 monitors and they do sound a little better than my Tyros 5 keyboards Ts05 speakers.
My pain is that the Tapco speakers being flat response sound very flat to me and boxy.
Is there a set of decent monitors that can give a flat response for mixing and maybe a switch to get back sound like a quality hi -fi.
Does anyone know what I mean??
I would like some help as to me flat sounds,sound very flat and when playing for pleasure flat does not sound great to me.
Just a little question.
 
All the Best
john

A few years ago, I had a box called the KRK Ergo.  It came with a mic, and measured the frequency responses at various parts of your room, and then EQ'd what you hear to compensate.  It worked really well, and had the on/off feature that you had mentioned.
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/krk-ergo
 

This plugin may be what you need.  There's a 30 day trial.
 
FYI:  It uses iLok.
 
https://shop.audified.com/collections/products/products/mixchecker
 

Nearfield vs hifi is also a consideration.  The way the speakers project makes a HUGE difference

BobF
Nearfield vs hifi is also a consideration.  The way the speakers project makes a HUGE difference

yes, you really should not use 'stereo speakers' for mix decisions.
they have already been HYPED by design.
just the opposite of what you want.

You're asking about flat speakers, but I think your premise is flawed right from the get go. This is because chances are better than not that your tapco speakers which you believe be flat are in fact anything but flat. A spectrum analyzer and a very good reference mic would tell you for sure but most of us don't have access to those kinds of things.

Very few speakers are truly flat and even if they are, as has been mentioned, the room you put them in can change that completely. What you're really looking for is speakers that are 'uncolored' i.e. speakers that don't try to artificially alter the source material in some kind of pleasing way. Once you find those, you have to put them in the room you're going to use them in and then you have to 'learn' them. Which means you have to start building mixes on them and then take those mixes and play them on as many other systems as possible to see how accurately they translate on the whole. 

Once you do that, you learn what kind of compensation, if any, you need to make when you mixing i.e. less punch than you ultimately want in the low end or more sizzle than you really want in the highs etc.
 
Obviously the ideal is to not have to do any compensation at all. But those systems/rooms are rare. If you can get it dialed in to where you're making only very minor compensations, call it good and get to work IMO.