Tight G string on my bass

[Strahinja Petrovic]

Originally Posted by Thomas Erickson

It is no different here; I don't know a single luthier who knows about slap bass. Not that I do either!

I don't ask you to know about slap bass, I just want to think that I'm not crazy! That's enough!
I know basics of bass setup and everything on my bass looks fine. Maybe the soundpost is too tight! Or something like that I don't know almost nothing about soundpost and how it affects string tension.
I have to go to see the luthier to sand my fingerboard (steels did some damage) and we'll try to do something, but I don't know what!
But it's not easy when my bass is not comfortable to my, I have gigs all the time and I can't enjoy 100%.

[Eric Hochberg]

Looks like you have a solid tailpiece wire. Change to a braided cable. That might loosen up the feel of the bass a bit. You also might play around with raising the tailpiece towards the bridge and see if that affects the feel.

[Mike Mandelas]

You can also try a Marvin wire tailpiece. In many basses it dininishes tension considerably and improves sustain and volume.
Mike

[Thomas Erickson]

Originally Posted by Mike Mandelas

You can also try a Marvin wire tailpiece. In many basses it dininishes tension considerably and improves sustain and volume.
Mike

Will you please explain how exactly a wire tailpiece can, on many instruments, reduce string tension?

[Strahinja Petrovic]

It's a little better now.
I moved bridge down. I have notches on F holes (right being hole where E string is and left being hole where is G string) but they are not in the same line. Bridge was in line with notch on the F hole on the G string side. Now I moved bridge a little down (toward tailpiece) and everything works better now. It's not perfect, but it's ok. Now my E and A string sound better and have more punch.