If the extra 100 bucks is in your price range and you have played the M-100 and like it I think you found your new axe Bro. Thats what we call a midrange guitar and I think you will find the pickups a bit nicer sounding on clean settings.
**Just as a note**
Both those guitars use a dual coil(humbucker) pickup at the bridge and neck positions. You will never find a truely "sweet" clean sound without a single coil but there is a solution. At the bridge on my Kramer I have a Seymour Duncan Hotrails which is a humbucker in a single coil size ... and its hot too around 18k impedance ... can pretty much bring satellites out of orbit with it lol.
On that guitar I have a coil splitting switch on the volume control which splits the coils and runs that pickup as single coil .. a very Stratty sound ... pull up its single coil.
That can also be done on either of those ESP guitars for about 15 -20 for the pot/switch as a part. Another suggestion for a Floyd guitar is something I used on my RG550 by Seymour Duncan ... the "Trembucker". It is custom built for guitars that use Floyd tremolos and takes out that overly bright high end tone. This pickup was also split in the same manner on my RG550 and worked quite well.
What I didn't like about the RG550 were the jumbo frets and the neck. Twenty-four frets were nice but the wizard neck was to thin for our climate here in Canada ... constantly adjusting the truss rod playing live from gig to gig. For those not familiar with the RG550 scallop the bottom 3 frets and add a handle and you have "The Gem" that Steve Vai helped design and plays ... same guitar.
OK enough guitar talk ... Bro ya get set up come on and jam not sure where you are in Quebec but Montreal is only 3 hours from here .. Cheers
