Why would you want to use a DPA miniature microphone to record or mic up your acoustic and electric guitars? What advantages are there to using them? Surely the range of standard techniques work fine!
Here are a few useful tips and a couple of novel solutions that might just make you reconsider your working practices...
 
1: Recording Acoustic Guitar
The Instrument Microphone kit IMK4061 comes with a range of attachments, clips, and holders for the DPA 4061 miniature microphone that comes with it, including stick-on holders ideal for acoustic guitars. This solution offers great sound quality, ease of use, and freedom of movement for the guitarist:
 
 
Roger Askew: "We used a stick on clip on the guitar, stuck on the scratchplate pointing up across the hole towards the highest string. The guitar sounded as good as it's ever sounded straight away, that was fantastic. I had to be a bit more careful of hand noise on the body, but once I'd got used to that I really liked the sound; it made it sound like an expensive guitar! I hardly touched the EQ, it was lovely, and with just a little bit of reverb it sounded fantastic!"
 
2: Miking up an Acoustic Guitar on Stage
One of the most difficult problem live sound engineers have to solve is how to amplify acoustic instruments on stage without inducing feedback, and yet maintain audio quality. In smaller venues with modest PA and onstage monitoring setups the stick-on holders in the IMK 4061 as discussed above can provide an excellent solution. Their unobtrusive appearance can also be a great advantage in these image-conscious times when videotaping is such a commonplace event.
However, jazz guitarist Andy Smith has devised a novel solution that:

1. completely eliminates feedback problems;
2. hides the microphone;
3. offers up superb sound quality.

Using an off-the-shelf soundhole fitting, Andy has used two of the stick-on holders to contain the miniature microphone within the body of the guitar. It sounds great! With experience, Andy has found that using the high-boost grid alleviates any hint of boxiness. All he does is add a little reverb at the PA.
 

 
3: Miking up a Guitar Amp
Everyone knows that you mic a guitar amp by dangling an SM57 in front of the speaker, right?
Well, if you're looking for something a little more like the actual sound of the amp you could try using a DPA miniature microphone. Their ability to handle high SPLs means they are easily able to function in this kind of application whilst still offering up a clean signal. Again, their small size can be useful where aesthetic considerations may be an issue (video shoots and TV broadcasts, for example).
 

 
Roger Askew: I finally put an electric guitar onto the track. That was the thing that really surprised me! I got the Telecaster out, plugged it into the amp, and I just hung one of the DPA mics through the strap in front of the speaker. It was absolutely amazing. It sounded exactly like the amplifier. I think of all the years that I've struggled in studios moving amps around and standing them on things, putting SM58s in the back of them and trying to get something in the control room that sounds like the guy down there with his amp cranked up. This just sounded absolutely like the amp, I was completely shocked! When I record guitar amps I'm going to be hanging one of these over the top from now on… Just amazing. It was the sound."