Logic Pro LPX Metering ...I´m not getting it

[mofateam]

Hi everybody,

I´m new and here comes my first question.
I hope it is not too dumb.

I place a mastered dancetrack in LPX. Faders are set to 0.0
Now the trackmeter overloads (4,1)
I check the file ,
logic tells me "already normalized" (converted it from mp3)

Ok, now I place a limiter in the channel and set it to 0,0 dB ..everything is ok, the meter shows ...0,0 dB.
I mute the limiter. Everything goes back to 4,3

I stumbled over this many times - what am i missing ??

 

[facej]

Pre-fader metering?

 

[mofateam]

I tried both.
Since my faders are set to 0 and the audiofile is normalized to 0, it makes no difference.
I moved the fader to -5 zto zero the gain

 

[mofateam]

This may be interesting for everybody :

I used smart tempo on that track.
By turning it off, the metering worked normal again.
Turning it on again resulted in +4-5 dB.

so is it a bug what I found here ?