{"id":614,"date":"2015-05-13T13:25:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:50:12","slug":"first-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"First Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2692.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2692.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really like that the Mexican Strat maintains such modest\u00c2\u00a0prestige, yet it&#8217;s my favorite guitar to play at the moment. Over the weekend, I did my first modification(s) to it. Keeping the upgrades modest for the most part, this is what I installed:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fender Noiseless pickups<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t really think I have any major desires for how I want my\u00c2\u00a0pickups to sound at the moment. In fact, I thought the stock pickups sounded just fine. But I did wish the inherent noise of the single coils could be remedied. And yes, I could have shielded the pickup cavities a bit more, but from the Amazon reviews, this seemed to do the trick as well. So I got &#8217;em and installed them. No. Noise.<\/li>\n<li>Emerson Custom 5-way blender pre-wired kit<br \/>\nBefore I got this kit, I performed the\u00c2\u00a0re-wiring mod to the stock hardware and I liked the new tonal options it gave me. So really, I kinda didn&#8217;t need this that much. So I&#8217;d consider this a bit of a splurge &#8211; kinda stepping outside the lines of modest, I guess. And this probably doesn&#8217;t matter to anybody except me, but the wiring job was just really clean!\u00c2\u00a0And I like that.<\/li>\n<li>Mint pickguard.<br \/>\nJust because it looks nice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like that the Mexican Strat maintains such modest\u00c2\u00a0prestige, yet it&#8217;s my favorite guitar to play at the moment. Over the weekend, I did my first modification(s) to it. Keeping the upgrades modest for the most part, this is what I installed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,264,9],"tags":[294,270,265,266,267,269,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}