somebody help!!!!!!i herd a crack!

[mitchseek]

ok i was re-stringing my bass,all strung up.tuned it to E and she sounded wonderfull,so then i tuned it to C what me band plays in and i herd the most horrible sound ever"CRACK" wood cracking!!!,i freaked and searched all over the neck and body couldnt find anything wrong at all,no cracks,no splits!the sound did sound alot like wood cracking,has this happen to somebody before?>please tell me my bass is ok,

[darrell]

ok i was re-stringing my bass,all strung up.tuned it to E and she sounded wonderfull,so then i tuned it to C what me band plays in and i herd the most horrible sound ever"CRACK" wood cracking!!!,i freaked and searched all over the neck and body couldnt find anything wrong at all,no cracks,no splits!the sound did sound alot like wood cracking,has this happen to somebody before?>please tell me my bass is ok,

Are you sure it wasn't just the string snapping out of tune? It happens when you don't string it properly and overlap the string over itself. It'll slip and go flat. Is that what happened?

[mitchseek]

i dont know,2 be honest i had a few drinks b4,but the sound did sound alot like wood cracking,and yes the string did go flat.i didnt see any movement with the string tho....and the sound came from the "body" area of my bass.....
sory not much help am i ,but ur imput is bloody great.

[mitchseek]

i made sure that the strings are tidy around the tuneing knob,i am very fussy,dont like messy strings

[Scooch]

The only time I've heard a huge crack was after I just tuned to C started playing and my nut broke (the piece that holds the string right before the first fret) so check that it might have snapped somewhere.

[Crudd-Bucket™]

Might have been a slip in the neck to body joint

[edgebass5]

Did you tune your E down to a C or up to a C?

[Misanthropic]

How can anything like that happen to a bass if you tune a string down (loosen it)!? If you tuned up to C I can understand it, but that wouldn't be very smart in the first place now would it.

[psbassplayer]

ive tuned g to c but e? thats just suicide.

Peace

-psbass

[mitchseek]

i tuned my b up to a c, ,c,f,a#....
yeah i checked the nut and whole body,found not a thing
slip in the neck to body join????explain please?is it a bad thing?

[SuM MeXiCaN]

^^^ im not sure but i think the correct name is "action" well its that thing on the body of the bass you higher and lower the strings closer or farther away from the fret board and pick up. Usually on those little things they have indents for the strings to go. My guess it that you missed it and the string was just laying there. And when u were tightning the strings all the tension of the string being pull make it "pop" into place with a load bang....yea i think thats it lol

[mitchseek]

i bloody hope so,i noticed today that my internation was out too(done this buy playing an open string then playing the octive<12th fret)is that right????it was only out in a few strings.it was only out buy fu*k all...

[SuM MeXiCaN]

i bloody hope so,i noticed today that my internation was out too(done this buy playing an open string then playing the octive<12th fret)is that right????it was only out in a few strings.it was only out buy fu*k all...

wat the ****? lol. i dunno what ur talking about (i actually dont know, but i think ur right or sumthing)

[fingerstyle]

if the intonation was out.. as compared to the way it might have been previously, then it sounds like something in the bridge has moved, or your neck has done something horrible.

but its just weird.... unless it was just a 'relief' crack from the neck/string going from a higher tension to a lower tension.

im hoping you were tuning each string as you went, rather than making one in tune and leaving the rest.

[maco]

if you're gonna tune it crazy-high, why dont you buy thinner strings?

[dubbeatscb]

maybe your truss rod moved, sometimes when you adjust it it makes a crack sound as it moves out o its set position

[mitchseek]

yea,well i allready had these strings,cost 6o bucks so im not going to chuck them away,will be buying thinner strings next time,took my bass to my bass teacher yesterday,he said it seems ok,but we guna pull it apart next week have a good look,thanks for all the help guys.

i told my guitarst playing in c was **** but noooooooooooooooooooooooo..........."our strings only cost 14dollers,**** u bass player!!!!" think i might give them all a good arse wipping tonight at practice!may need the help of my fav crowbar!!