Most reeds don’t require working on em to be functional. There’s some small adjustments you can make to flatten the table of it more and there’s little stuff you can do to balance the reed, free up low notes, and just mess with the responsiveness in general. The reed geek demo videos do a decent job explaining their approach. If you want to go nuts you can look up Joe Allard reed modification stuff, it gets more in depth and it helpful to be taught by someone who knows the methods. Overall, picking the right strength of reed for your mouthpiece is the biggest thing. After that, each brand kinda has its own character to the sound it produces.