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To the OP - if you watch some Strat demos on YouTube you'll be able to tell if it's just your guitar or if the sound in general is just not to your taste.
Personally I love all 5 switch positions on a Strat and I love the neck + middle at least as much as the others too!
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The tricky bit is the tone controls - the easiest way is to use two tone caps, then connect the neck tone control to the unused neck-position terminal so it’s only active there, and the other one to the middle pickup, so it works in the other two positions. You can then use different cap values if you prefer, a .047uF for the neck pickup and a .022 for the middle seems to work well.
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I've also got a push-push pot on the other tone control to add the neck pickup to any switch setting. I mainly use that for bridge and neck together - which is really useful. I use it more than positions 2 and 4.
Just for good measure there is a baseplate on the bridge pickup which does seem to beef it up slightly as well.
Does take a bit of judicious tweaking of various volume and tone controls when switching from neck or bridge to in-between though - still getting used to this. On a tele I find it much easier for some reason.
Actually, because of my screen resolution on the main page I saw there'd been a reply from "richard...", and thought "Fuck,he hasn't joined?!"