Need a lesson in RTA and Crossover set up

[anarchyaudio 0]

I have a 3 way electronic crossover 18db slope and rta on my Head unit. I have 3 6 volt preouts front, rear, and subs, I have my tweets run off front channel and my mids ( 2 5.25's ) off the rear channel and the subs my question is. I know what freq the crossover points are, but I am not sure what Q is on the crossover, I can adjust the freq range and the q of the crossover. And I think I may be doing my high and low pass on the bandpass portion incorrectly. I have the high pass set to 3500 and the lowpass set to 100, was not sure about the Q so I left it alone.

I have not done anything with RTA, I messed with it some but could not tell a real difference in positioning but I dont think I moved it much. I was wondering what is the best way to go about setting it up. If anyone has any reference materials or advice. I would greatly appreciate it.

[topgun 262]

What HU do you have?

[anarchyaudio 0]

What HU do you have?

Clarion 785usb

[SeductiveSounds 0]

I think you are getting RTA and EQ very confused.

On most decks Q is an adjustment of the width of a centre frequency. (Greek maybe?)

Give this a read it may explain it better than I did

http://www.bcae1.com/equalizr.htm

[anarchyaudio 0]

I think you are getting RTA and EQ very confused.

On most decks Q is an adjustment of the width of a centre frequency. (Greek maybe?)

Give this a read it may explain it better than I did

http://www.bcae1.com/equalizr.htm

The RTA does not have a Q adjustment only the crossover, thats where my confusion lies the eq also has a Q adjustment but I know what that is for.

[KU40 173]

the bandpass on the mids is reversed. you want the high pass at 100 and low pass at 3500.

[anarchyaudio 0]

I feel like such a newbywhen it comes to the processing, hardwiring and and install I dont have any real problem with, its the fine tuning that I suck @ so far.

Anyone have a suggestion when it comes to tuning is it just listening and getting it where you want it, or is there a test you can run it through to help the set up