Testing a string's tension with another string—Does my reasoning make sense?

[Prodigus Filius]

Are there any string makers in your region of the world? All the string makers I know are in the US, Western Europe (or TI in Central Europe) and Magma in Argentina.

Nothing in Oz or New Zealand. As far as south East Asia goes, nothing produced there as well as far as I know. You’d think Indonesia would have something going given the roll of Cort in guitar and bass manufacturing industry. Stuff under a thousand different names for the same strings made in China. Not great quaility. Apparently Yamaha used to make some strings in Japan a long time ago. Korea? Dunno

 

[Stan_da_man]

Long story short, I want to test if a string with a tension of 24.8 lbs when tuned to E is too loose for me, without having to buy the string and set up the bass.

Now, if I use D'Addario's String Tension Pro tool and plug in the current string set I'm using with my current bass's scale length, I get a tension of 28.1 lbs for the E string. If I tune the string down to D# in the tool, I get a tension of 25 lbs—0.2 lbs higher than the above 24.8 lbs.

That being the case, would tuning my E string to D# on my current bass give me a general idea of how a string with 24.8 lbs of tension would feel like?

Other aspects that may or may not affect my experiment:

The test would be done on a 30.75-inch scale bass with a .100 D'Addario NYXL round wound with a hex core tuned to D#.

The actual 24.8 lbs string would be on a 30-inch scale bass tuned to E. The string is the D'Addario XL Tape Wound. It has a gauge of .105 and a hex core—I believe it's a .090 or .095 D'Addario XL round wound wrapped in nylon.

I know it'll never be exactly the same, but would it give me a good idea or am I missing something?

This has to be @GC34 right?

 

[Just Wrong]

This has to be @GC34 right?

What?

 

[iiipopes]

If you want to know what the tension would be like on a 30-inch scale bass, then on a standard 34-inch scale bass tune the string down two frets, for example, from E to D, and capo at the second fret. Then you will know what the string in question feels like at the shorter scale. You can do the rest of the strings the same way. Then you can play it for awhile to find out what the entire set would feel like. When transitioning to shorter scale basses, I have done this.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

use a plectrum

For one, that's the dark side, and for me exacerbates any fret buzz issues.

 

[E2942]

Fret buzz will naturally increase with a less taut string.