I am still sorting out some hardware issues and levels, but as an experiment I tracked a DI that was way too hot on purpose and clipping like crazy on the way in but on playback it never registers higher than -3.0 on the meter. Why is this?
Here is the track where you can see the insane waveform and the meter to the left showing nothing higher than -3.0.
ok cool. i changed PROJECT setting instead of equal pan low to be 0db and now it peaks at 0dB. what if i want to see the ACTUAL signal, including all of the awful clipping?