**Find a well-recorded and well-mastered CD, preferably "off the shelf" of the same type and genre of music that you are trying to record. This becomes one of your "reference" CDs.**

Play the reference CD back on your PA system.

Does the response sound okay to you?

If it does, then there is no problem with your PA system and its ability to reproduce the audio content.

If it doesn't, then this could indicate that there is something about your PA system that you have been altering your mixes in order to compensate for -- and that's the wrong way to go about it, for those same mixes are likely to "translate" to other systems with dreadful results.


--Mac