The same basses just sound different.... why?

So i know that some basses and guitars are just the same model but one has a way better sound (for example some squiers are fender worthy and some aren't). So i never actually got a good explanition it came to be that way (sorry for my band English).

"bad" not band :P

Tone would be due to the wiring used, the quality of the electronics on the preamp, the pickups, the strings used, the type of nut used. When you pay a higher amount for a Fender over a Squire, most of the time it's because they are using better products and in a factory with really strict guidelines. A cheaper instrument can be made in a factory in a 3rd world country, by people that barely know what they are doing, and with materials that are leftovers or were bought on sale for one reason or another. It's not impossible to spend less and get more than the more expensive version, but you have higher chances of consistently getting a better quality when buying the higher end gear.

The feel of the instrument is probably the most changed from a high end model and a low end model. The fret work, the contour of the body and neck, the smoothness of the back of the neck, the balanced weight... all these are vastly improved upon when you pay more money usually.

Are you asking why the bang same bass (Say two Mexican P basses), or say a custom shop, and a squire sound different?

I mean like you have two the same squier j basses with the same pickups wood ect. Sometimes the EXACT same model sounds different

they may be the same specis of wood but they are 2 different pieces of wood, probably from 2 different tress that might not even have grown in the same soil or part of the earth... they were probably kiln dried by the supplier and they may have dried differently (different amounts of time in the kiln)depending on how many orders the lumber company was filling that day not to mention they were all probably shipped across the sea to be built and then back across the sea as finished guitars again changing the moisture content for each body... the sanding process during finishing will have an effect too... not t mention cheap isntruments with solid finishes are often lots of scraps glued together. Different size chunks glued in different places in relation to the sound board will change the body's tone filtering properties.... that's if the Chinese jerks who manufactured your bass even use the woods they claim... 2 squiers made on different weeks could use different wood and just both claim to be, say, alder

Ok thx, so the squier jazz bass (fretless) that i am buying this or next week actually sounded better than the two fender mexicans that tried

shrug make sure you buy the EXACT one you liked or you may be disappointed

I will say this for mexi fender, while they are variable in tone and feel they are pretty consistently okay guitars while the squiers are all over the map

Its from a really good but small store and they only had 1 so its gonna be alright :) http://www.voxhumana.nl/index.php/nl/