Guitar pickups are a common component of any electric guitar, which rely on an application of Faraday’s law in order to convert the frequency of a mechanical wave of a guitar string into an electrical signal with the same frequency. They use a strong magnet to magnetize the string, which when plucked, changes the magnetic flux through the coil at a rate equal to the frequency of vibration. There are many types of coils, but a single coil consisting of six magnets is used to model the effective distance of the pickup from the string. By using an oscilloscope to measure the frequency, amplitude, and total harmonic distortion of the signal at distances ranging from 7-12 mm, the signal measured at 7.5 mm yielded the least total harmonic distortion (THD) and the greatest contribution to signal strength from the fundamental frequency, showing that that is an optimal distance for signal clarity.