Add String Tension

[lookjojoisplaid]

I have a Fender Jazz bass and the only complaint i have about it now is that the E string feels so loose i really wish it were allot tighter. I already have a badass bridge on there. Is there anything i can do or add on to my bass?

 

[Nick man]

Get higher gague strings.

 

[brothernewt]

Get higher gague strings.

I don't know about higher "gague", but larger guage would help... (couldn't help myself)

 

[lookjojoisplaid]

I don't know about higher "gague", but larger guage would help... (couldn't help myself)

Survey says wow

 

[brothernewt]

no sense of irony... oh well.

 

[lookjojoisplaid]

That was not irony that was purely stupid

 

[brothernewt]

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much anger in him

 

[lookjojoisplaid]

Get higher gague strings.

I really dont think that getting higher gague string would help in fact i think they would have the opposite effect. I was thinking more allong the lines of lighter strings.

 

[sethlow3]

higher action on that string...

 

[lookjojoisplaid]

higher action on that string...

i dont wanna raise the action any

 

[Luke73]

I was thinking more allong the lines of lighter strings

Lighter strings will make the strings floppier.

Heavier gauge strings will increase the tension.



Try tuning your 0.045 G string down to a low E, and see how floppy it is! LOL

 

[sethlow3]

Raising the action slightly, on that string only will make a world of difference in flopiness and buzzing. I promise. Try it yourself. You only need couple of mm. it sounds like.

 

[Groover]

Use Flatwounds or Halfrounds.

 

[Richard Lindsey]

I don't know about higher "gague", but larger guage would help... (couldn't help myself)

Not nearly as much as higher *gauge*. (Sorry, I couldn't help myself either. )

 

[Richard Lindsey]

I really dont think that getting higher gague string would help in fact i think they would have the opposite effect. I was thinking more allong the lines of lighter strings.

You would be wrong about that.

 

[pilotjones]

I really dont think that getting higher gague string would help in fact i think they would have the opposite effect. I was thinking more allong the lines of lighter strings.

Wrong. Completely. Sorry.

Heavier strings require higher tension to achieve the same pitch with the same vibrating length; lighter weight strings require lower tension to achieve the same pitch with the same vibrating length.

Physics. Theory. Reality. Tested. Proven. Cannot be denied either by rational argument or emipical data. Is supported by both rational argument and emipical data.

As someone suggested, try tuning even your A string (somewhat lighter than your E) down to E. Flop city. You had to loosen it to get it down to E.

 

[Fretless5verfan]

Buy some high gauge lo-riders.

 

[silky smoove]

Raising the action slightly, on that string only will make a world of difference in flopiness and buzzing. I promise. Try it yourself. You only need couple of mm. it sounds like.

While this will reduce fret buzz simply due to the higher action, flopiness (i.e. lack of tension) will not be affected enough to make any noticeable difference. I made a diagram of this in AutoCAD about a year ago showing the increase in scale length as action was increased. The increase in action required to increase the scale length enough to make a noteable difference was pretty massive.

 

[pilotjones]

While this will reduce fret buzz simply due to the higher action, flopiness (i.e. lack of tension) will not be affected enough to make any noticeable difference. I made a diagram of this in AutoCAD about a year ago showing the increase in scale length as action was increased. The increase in action required to increase the scale length enough to make a noteable difference was pretty massive.

Definitely agree on the fact that raising the action does not increase the scale length, and therefore tension, to any significant degree. ( sec(small angle) ~= 1 ). However, "floppy" has to do with a person's perceptions, and these are likely IMO to be more affected by hearing buzz, or by scraping the pup cover on the fingerstroke, than by the actual tension. So, I think raising the action can possibly make it "feel less floppy," at least to some degree. Too bad it make intonation worse.

 

[Geoff St. Germaine]

Just attach some lead sinkers that you would use for fishing to the string.