signal to noise with direct guitar

[Hack]

I was recording a dry guitar thru an avalon 737 last night. The dry sound on tape is real clean. I then went out an aux, balenced, thru a radial JDI, out of the JDI, unbalenced, into a pod. When the pod comes back into the mixer it has more hiss and less balls then pluging straight into the pod.

Am I doing something wrong? Shouldnt it sound the same as pluging straight into the pod?

I am doing this cause I dont want to commit to a guitar sound at tracking. Seems like this offers tons of flexibility when mixing and makes setting up the tracking session real fast.

Any thoughts?

 

[Kurt Foster]

Sounds like an impedance mis match. try coming straight out of the aux and directly into the POD, eliminating the DI box..