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Largely a matter of taste as well....
Normally it’s horribly thin and clicky .
I’m not normally much of a fan either, but they do have their uses so I do have a 5-way switch on my Strat-type.
In particular you need them (with a RWRP middle pickup) if you’re playing anywhere with a lot of electrical noise .
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Sweet Home Alabama is an example.
The other one, neck and middle I use when I want a darker neck tone and then flick to just the neck pickup when I want a slight apparent boost and a brighter tone but admittedly this is the position I use the least.
I'm using SD Classic Stack Humbuckers STK4.
Bridge/middle has its place for funky/disco cleans. Neck/middle always sounds like someone trying to copy SRV but ending up in john mayer's ballpark.
I would be quite happy with a three way on my strat, with an option for neck/bridge.
(Only kidding...)
It's always a matter of taste. It's not the sort of tone I would choose to put a lot of drive onto, TBH, but using position 4 is similar to position 2 for me - on a Strat and a Sillhouette - just slightly spikier. Edge of breakup sounds great with those settings to my ears.
I think the bridge/middle is a nice sound with compression. (Otherwise it's a bit thin & trebly.)
But it's all individual preference anyway.
2&4 sound great clean or with light overdrive on my CS Strat with El Diablo pickups. There is a slight loss of definition and highs when switching from 1/3/5 so I tend to EQ amp to the 2&4 with tone controls fully open and then roll back tone to control the 'bite' on the 1/3/5 as required.
The 2/4 positions don't sound the best with higher gain, but that's not what I expect from a Strat.
Leo was right - a three way switch is the correct fitment for a Strat. :-)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The middle pickup never gets used.
prob though is that they vanish a bit in the mix..
I actually prefer it - I'm not a huge fan of the 'quack' sound. I have a hotter bridge pickup in my 'Strat' and a master tone control (so there's no extra roll-off in the neck/middle position as there is with two) and the bridge/middle sound is actually fatter than the neck/middle - which I also like, because I tend to use the neck/middle clean and the bridge/middle with a little dirt, so the difference is better that way round.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein