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As BuckyB said, you don't need to be playing all the strings to sound good on electric. In fact, it often sounds better if you're only doing 3 or 4 strings. On a lot of recordings, there's a part that's only playing 2-4 strings and is up pretty high (around the 12th fret). Try experimenting. Take your open chords and bring them up 12 frets. You probably can't play the whole open chord up an octave, so experiment with playing different notes from the chord up an octave.
I remember when I was starting out, there were a lot of guitar parts I could never get to sound right because I was trying to do 'em with open chords. Another thing is that your technique (especially how you hit the strings with the pick) has a significant effect on your sound. I also wasted a lot of time trying to use different settings on a modeler to achieve what actually came from my technique.
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