25.5" or 24.75" scale length?

[Lyck]

On a 24.75" scale Les Paul I use Ernie Ball Baritone Slinky 13-18-30-44-56-72, tuned to A standard and it gives you that flob and bending notes. Perfect!
My 28" baritone is strung with D´dario EXL 157 13-18-26-44-56-68, tuned to A standard. Way more tight and gives you some other possibilities in directions of picking faster, tighter playing and clarity.

[Nostradoomus]

Depends on tuning/set up etc. I've got a Gibson in A Standard and my Monson with a 25.5 scale is in Open F# (F#C#F#C#F#A) both strung with the same set of Naked strings (12-70) and they both play and feel great.

[ridingeternity]

You also have to account for the thick bodies on Les Pauls as well as the mahogany/maple top. Thick bodies really shine when you crank the amp they are running, only way I can explain the difference is stock thinner bodies tend to make more of a "bwaonnn" type dynamic and thicker make more of a "bwaaaooonnnnnnnnnnnn" oh yeah, that's what we call sustain...

Comparing an SG to an LP and the tones are very different, and both are 24.75, which is why even with the detuning, Iommi's tone was much brighter than if he had used the same setup on an LP.

Im with Parker, the difference is negligible and mainly applies to the overall dynamics, in my experience the longer the length the tighter the bottom end and attack becomes much more apparent, which is why for Doom, the 24.5" is the weapon of choice, looser bottom end and a quick dissipating attack to focus more on the distortion harmonics and body of the tone.

In the end I feel like string size, pickup choice, wood choice, neck construction and bridge config have so much more of an effect on a guitars overall tone that with any combination of those factors you can get a 25 to sound and react like a 24 or vice versa, only thing you will not make up for using this approach is fret spacing.

[samzadgan]

I've had an Iceman at 25.5 and a strat at 25.5 (i think) and then i played a friends les paul...i have to admit for me, it comes down to feel. I get the whole floppiness of a shorter scale, but for me, its more about feel and how the shorter scale allows for a lot more bending, especially bending power chords a full step...which i had a very hard time doing on those other guitars.

i think the sound comes more from other factors like some others have already said...case in point...i had an Epiphone with EMG's and that was extremely tight and focused on the bottom end even with the 12-60 strings and tuned to C, exactly the same as my other Les Paul, the only difference being the pickups.

HOWEVER...for clean tones...tuned down and thick strings, i did prefer the sound of the longer scale...just had a lot more crispiness to it (for obvious reasons) that i really liked

[van_muddlestein]

I grew up being obsessed with SG's and gibsons. The older I get the more I'm all about fenders and fender scale guitars. They're just more comfy these days.