Always use songs that you always listen to. So that, you have a clear image of how the song is supposed to sound like, it will be a lot easier for you to do the trial and error. Doesn't matter what genre or song.

For my own simplicity, I use a very sentimental, normal recording (non-bias), chinese mainstream pop song to do the basic tuning. And from there on, when I listen to other cd's I just need to do some minor fine tuning.

Edit : About on and off axis, it's all about trial and error.

This post has been edited by kenlimfornication: Aug 4 2008, 06:09 PM