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A good compressor before the overdrive/distortion can work wonders. Strat bridge p/u tones can be helped by modding the tone controls to work on all 3 pickups (with either bridge & middle or middle & neck sharing one of the pots) - a strat bridge p/u with the tone backed off can sound surprisingly fat. The 'greasebucket' mod on the bridge tone control (a simple resistor/capacitor change) is quite good for certain drive tones too.
Alternatively, just turn the amp up really, really loud! (which will naturally compress the sound anyway).
Humbuckers tend to sound OK used with natural amp distortion. Then again, I really don't like humbuckers.
The trick with single coils, is to not use too much gain and preferably a pedal which emphasises the mids, to thicken the tone. This is why a lot of Strat players like Tube Screamers and their derivatives.