Micing amp to record electric guitar

Trying to get into this practice.. How do you guys do it? Is your amp setup in a different room? If it's in the same room, then how can properly hear sound coming out of the DAW to make sure that is the sound you want? Doesn't your amp sound interfere with the sound coming out of the amp? Any advice for a beginner in this area will be helpful...

Here are a couple of good resources. There's a bit of humor in the video. Just saying.
 
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug07/articles/guitaramprecording.htm
 
http://www.seymourduncan.com/tonefiend/recording/how-to-mic-an-amppart-1-the-basics/
 

 
I have a Fender Rumble 200 v3 with a built-in DI. I record both the DI and amp. I use a Sennheiser e 609 Guitar Mic to mic the speaker.
 
http://en-us.sennheiser.com/e-609-silver
 
What I love about that mic is its front-facing design. I drape the mic over the cabinet and get it to hang right where I want it. I have no problem hearing the amp through my monitoring headphones. 
 

I just tried a few things a couple weeks ago and they worked for me. My room is large (23'x15'x10') with all hard surfaces, so I faced the amp diagonally to minimize early reflections. I was originally going to toy with mic placement, but found centered between the speakers allowed for the direct path signal to overpower reflections fairly readily. I used a cheap diaphragm condenser (MXL V63M) at about 24" from the amp face and about 8" off the floor. Dead center was also chosen to minimize phasing issues, since the floor is hard and this is a 2x12 amp. Monitoring was done via headphones to prevent feedback into the mic. As the amp was set loud enough to outshine all else, the input gain could be set low enough to eliminate a lot of background noise from the takes (I was actually surprised by this, since this mic is not one I would recommend, and has always given me grief to pick up everything).
 
I am not sure what your setup is, but making sure the direct path signal is dominant (do not "square-off" to a wall in the front or rear), being aware of mic placement for potential phasing issues, and using headphones (if within "range" of the mic) will be a good start. There is no cook-book answer for this unfortunately as a lot is dependent on your environment/setup, so do not hesitate to try things to see how they work for you.

I use a Palmer DI box. Very useful things. I've used it for gigs as well if the amp needs to be in the PA. Unless you need to be pushing speakers into distortion, which takes a lot of volume, it's no worse than a carefully set up mic and far better than a mic set up in a hurry or positioned with a view to minimising crosstalk rather than optimising the guitar sound.

I love my ribbon, but usually use a dynamic too. Sm57

Kev999
I'll just throw in a couple of alternative ideas. Instead of mic'ing, you could take a direct feed from the amplifier's preamp out or effect send (if it has this). Then, after the part has been recorded, you could play it back routed through the amp and use a mic to record some room ambience.

Interesting idea! Since I have a DI on my amp, I hadn't considered the effects loop. Gotta be line level. I need to check.
 
Ideas like this make me glad I got a US-16x08 instead of a US-4x4!
 
Should I ever choose to accept that mission, of course. 

But that my favorite brew: Miller Sh!te. Whaddami gonna do? 

i have experimented for years with all this stuff..
 
 
i end up with a very simple solution:
 

 
even tho it does not show it connected in this shot, i've got my palmer PDI-09 on top, with the amp output going directly into it, and back out and into the speaker cab.,,
the palmer gives me line level out with XLR, that goes directly to the mic preamp......and control over simulated cabs (eq filter, not digital sim of course, all passive)
 
then i have a shure ksm44 on the speaker.. thru the mic preamp and into the soundcard.....
 
i mix these two together into one track.
 
typically, the amount of direct Palmer signal versus mic is about 75% to 25% mix.
the direct is so good....
that it cannot be bested by the mic.
 
but the mic picks up room sound, transients that are not in the direct,
so for me, this is my best practice.
 
a lot of times, when i want a track to sound very dry and in your face,
i simply toss the mic track away.