Big input meters as output meters hack (+ feature request?)

[dysjoint]

I tried out this idea for a hack to get better track metering. It's pretty obvious and I don't know why I never tried it before.

Basically create a secondary 'aux' track, set the input to 'route audio from track x' and then toggle 'show big input meters'. So the output from the first track is now feeding the input for the second track and the large input meter reads identically to the output meter on previous track with the better size, resolution, and peak information in red. The input doesn't need to be armed for it to work, and I certainly don't want live input monitoring on anyway.

The drawback in this experiment, on my setup, is that once the large input meters are toggled on, all the clips in the other tracks temporarily disappear, as seen in the screenshot. Also it takes up arranger space.

An option to toggle this on and off directly onto the selected track, with full 1 db divisions from +5 to -30 for those times when you're compressing or clipping a couple db, would come in pretty handy sometimes.