I am hearing the dominant overtones from below the D string, but it is not too far out front. Depending upon where the acoustic guitar fits into the whole track, I have found that a dreadnought that sounds great in person is not always what you want to record with. I have often found them to create a bit of a tangle around 350-550hz., not on bluegrass or other predominantly acoustic music so much, but with more pop oriented instrumentation like keyboards and some vocals as well.
After recording acoustic guitar parts on our first album with a kick butt D-28, only to have to claw those tracks to pieces to mix them properly, we recorded the second album with a little 1976 Yamaha FG75 and a Yamaha FS720 Nashville strung. We got better results quicker with much less headache. But, again, these tracks were for "finish' and "sheen" on rock/pop recordings, not the acoustic guitar carrying the body of the song. That is a bit of a different animal.
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