A good setup is important on any guitar, but particularly so on Strats in my experience. Fender-style electrics are designed to be easy to service and setup, so you can often do a fairly good setup yourself with only a handful of tools.
There are tons of Stratocaster setup guides. Here's Fender's:
Fender's own Stratocaster setup guide
Since a folks are already suggesting pickups swaps in the thread, I'd counter by agreeing with the play it first and then decide faction. Most classic Strat single coil pickups respond to pickup height adjustments in ways that might surprise you.
The other big choice is to decide what to do with the "Tremolo" bridge. You can have it setup to float (rear of the bridge has a gap above the body) so that it can do up-bends, decked (bridge rear edge sits down on the body and the trem can lower pitch but not raised it) or blocked ("Eric Clapton style") with a chunk of wood between the back of the metal trem string block inside the back the of the guitar and the rear of the trem cavity. A blocked Strat bridge no longer moves in either direction. Each has their adherents and value.
Enjoy it! There are probably nice sounds available even with you low volume Frontman
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