I just posted a very similar question over at /r/guitar and am hoping to get good insight from the guitarist's perspective.

Here at /r/audioengineering I'm hoping to get the engineer's perspective.

Soon, weeks likely, I'll be out front for the 1st time ever doing the heavy lifting of being lead producer, tracker, and mixer. It's for a full album of quirky rock/country by one of my bands.

As a production choice we want to ditch the nearly nylon and rather underwhelming acoustic guitar tone we currently have (an acoustic with its own pickups ran through an "acoustic guitar combo amp.") and go for that early 1970s acoustic guitar tone.

Examples:

Grateful Dead's Friend of the Devil

Led Zeppelin's Hey Hey, What Can I Do?

It's bright-ish, golden, defined, so pleasing. I asked the guitarists if it has mainly to do with string metal and gauge. Also what the wood, bracing, and general body shape may have to do with it.

Here, I'm wondering what would be a good first attempt in terms of microphones (in more general terms, not specific models unless it's that important), placement, compressors, limiters, etc.

And especially eq. Or shall we say frequency content. I'm thinking that this sound has significantly LESS extreme high frequency content (8-12kHz area) than the .... nylon-esque sound I loathe so much. Probably some scooping occurred down in the 200-600Hz range but probably not over much. Scooping around 1kHz? I think this "sound" lives mostly around the 2-4kHz range.

What insights can you impart on me? Other than "do what sounds best," you know. :p We tend to say that a lot around here, too much perhaps?

Thanks to all!