Skyline,
I've always been loyal to Ibanez. Good value-to-cost ratio. I play stuff like Joe Satriani, but would advise you to stay away from floating tremolo (double locking) bridges. They harm tone, playability and sustain, all in exchange for the ability to do a dive or trill once and a while. I'm finding the tone to be too thin and pedal steel bends are really difficult. Good luck.
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Jay