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Originally Posted by KJung   I've never heard of fret leveling impacting dead spots in any way. I believe you are confused as to what a dead spot is. A dead spot has to do with the resonant frequency of the neck cancelling out the fundamental of a certain note, in the vast majority of the cases, this note is around the C through Eb in the area around the 4th to 7th fret or so on the G string.
I've never experienced anyone having serious dead spot in that area of the neck being able to fix it. Luckily, most dead spots results in a faster decay of the fundamental versus a lack of fundamental at the attack (this is death for me). A slightly faster decay can be dealt with. If you have a deadspot that is so severe that the fundamental doesn't even pop at the initial attack, IMO and IME you are most likely sunk  | +1 Many Fenders, and other bolt on neck basses, have this problem to some degree. A Fat Fingers can help by adding mass to the headstock which changes the resonant frequency. Necks with graphite rods don't have the problem as often, and graphite necks generally don't at all.
As you said, it is usually on the G string between the 4th and 7th frets. I had one that had it so bad that not only did it happen on the 5th through 7th frets on the G string but also (to a lesser degree) on every C, C# and D on the bass. The A string 3rd - 5th frets were nearly as bad as the G string. A Fat Fingers did help a lot on that one. It didn't eliminate it entirely, but it made it usable.
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