Are you still performing the same material that you were when you were a five piece? That could have a lot to do with it. There are more than a handful of successful two-piece rock bands out there, but a lot of their music has been orchestrated for a two person ensemble. Most of them either go the route of no guitar solos at all, rhythm solos,(basically an instrumental bridge), or solos where the drums change up to provide a better groundwork for the solo.The first thing I would recommend is trying some different arrangements for the songs to see if that works better.
On the other hand, I might recommend an EQ pedal set to augment the overall input and some of the frequencies that may sound thin, a chorus pedal with the depth and rate subtly tweaked to augment the body of your tone, or maybe a solid overdrive pedal set up to give a little extra boost without much, if any extra drive when solo time comes.
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