String Snapped... What Do I Do???

[Outshined91]

So I was just tuning my G string, minding my business when suddenly *SNAP*. I recently put on a fresh set of Rotosound Rs775LD's a couple weeks ago, and now the G string has snapped. To be honest, the G string had felt and sounded a little off from the start. Anyway, have any of y'all had a Rotosound string just break before? Not sure whether I contact the UK side or their American distributor..
Help please!

 

[jerry]

Could be a defective string but also check your frets if it snapped up on the neck.

 

[Microbass]

Sounds like a dud string. Might be worth contacting Rotosound.

Personally I've never had a good experience with Roto, aside from not liking their feel or sound. I once had a D string that tapered off from the 2nd fret.

 

[el murdoque]

Where exactly did it snap?

 

[Michedelic]

So I was just tuning my G string, minding my business when suddenly *SNAP*. I recently put on a fresh set of Rotosound Rs775LD's a couple weeks ago, and now the G string has snapped. To be honest, the G string had felt and sounded a little off from the start. Anyway, have any of y'all had a Rotosound string just break before? Not sure whether I contact the UK side or their American distributor..
Help please!

Pencils break. Tires go flat. Guitar strings break, bass strings not so much, but it does happen. Sh!t happens. I’m not sure you have much recourse. I’ve seen bass strings(and G seems to be the culprit)break only four times in my life...once to me, once to Jah Wobble, and twice to some guys in bar bands. The Wobble situation was somewhat humorous as, since it’s so unexpected, he had no spares, and it was too late to find a music store. My friend, who was in the opening band, took the string off his bass so that Wobble could use it for the gig, and afterwords, gave it back!

 

[Samatza]

Yes, it can happen. I don’t know much about Rotosound having only used them for a brief time many years ago.
It could be a bad string or it could be that it was the bend at the post that did it, you’ll need to get a single string if they are really new or change the set otherwise.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Did it break over the saddle?

 

[4001]

Check for a burr in your saddle and file it smooth but dont dig too deep and carve out a canyon... I use either a small round file or a triangular shaped, small one...
Those windings can dig into saddles and leave a few ridges that the strings won't sit properly on and then those ridges (burrs) cut the string when it moves over it the slightest bit.

 

[Outshined91]

Where exactly did it snap?

It broke at the headstock, right after the screw (between the screw and the nut).

I emailed Rotosound so I'll wait and see what they say. Thanks for all the input! I'm going to see about taking off the G off of my other bass and using it temporarily, as this is my main that is missing a G now. (They're both the same exact string model)

 

[bearfoot]

Are you calling the tuning machine a "screw"?

Something ain't right here...

 

[Stewie]

I had a Roto G break once about 40 years ago. It put a dent in Dennis's ride cymbal, the same one that fell over and gashed my Jazz Bass two weeks earlier. To be fair, I used to take them off and boil 'em every couple of weeks, and they owed me nothing (they did get their revenge)

 

[LBS-bass]

I've only had that happen once to a fresh string, and that was very recently, when I was installing a new set. I could not get my usual brand at the local store so I bought a different brand and the G string unwound before I could even get it tuned up. Just a bad string. I won't buy that brand (D'Addario) again, not the first bad experience I'd heard of with them.

I borrowed a string from another bass here and went on with life. You could contact the company and maybe they'll send you a new set.

Only other time it's happened to me was with really dead strings, happened onstage. Once the G and once the A. Many, many years ago.

 

[bassstrangler]

It broke at the headstock, right after the screw (between the screw and the nut).

I emailed Rotosound so I'll wait and see what they say. Thanks for all the input! I'm going to see about taking off the G off of my other bass and using it temporarily, as this is my main that is missing a G now. (They're both the same exact string model)

Umm, do you live in the middle of nowhere? Buy some new strings.

 

[john_g]

Had it happen, I contacted the manufacturer and they sent me a new string.

 

[thetragichero]

we live in an imperfect world
screws fall out,etc

 

[mellowgerman]

I've had several defective strings over the last 15 years or so, both for guitar and bass, from a variety of manufacturers. Every time the manufacturer sent a replacement except for once, when I had a roundwound string in a flatwound Fender set. I contacted them, they said they'd send a replacement, but never did. I tried to follow up and got no response.
If you absolutely need a replacement immediately, you may have to go buy a new set locally. Also, a good idea to keep a backup set of strings on hand for when this happens in the future.

 

[sonic 7]

I used to break a lot of A strings on my Rickenbacker. But I played with a pick in a pretty aggressive rock band and I beat that thing up pretty good. Whenever I changed strings I’d always keep the old ones for backup. You may have gotten a bad string but I don’t think you’ll have any luck getting a new one.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Back in my cowpunk days ( the late 80s)
I used to bust strings willy-nilly. Mostly the A or the E. Of course, I was diggin in pretty hard with a pick. Roto's, Diadarrios, Slinky's,
It didn't matter. My case was full of partial sets that somehow never included the one I needed.
It was getting pretty expensive until my guitarist, who owned a music store, found me a less expensive answer. He located a brand of "generic" strings and ordered me a case of them. They were round wound, came in a package that had an all white label with just the words "BASS STRINGS "
And a price scan symbol underneath .
I know ....think Repo man..
No idea who made em, or where (probably China) they sounded great, broke just as often as the name brands, BUT, he sold them to me for 10 bucks a set!
Moral of the story?
Start a band with a guy who owns a music store....

 

[tb-player]

My cousin got arrested for snapping a G-string.

 

[DWBass]

Wow. I can't remember the last time I broke a string. Or if I ever broke a string.