Topic: recording meters won't go "over"

[panther65]

I recently attempted to record a concert with the board's XLR patch cables, but something went wrong so I got just noise for the first set. The second set however, the board guy connected me via another line out with rca cables. I set the levels, which looked a bit high and left the area. I went to listen to the show and I got a good recording, but the levels were staying at 0db, and the deck's (a Tascam HD-P2) levels never went into "over", but they should have. At some points the meters were pegged at 0db, but never went over.
I can't figure out why that happened. I didn't have any "pad" or "cut" or "limiter" enabled. I can only think that maybe wherever I was patched out of had some sort of limiter?
I did a test at home and cranked the input and the meters went into over.
Any ideas would be appreciated, as I have 3 more shows to record of the same band.

[chucky]

Hmmmm...

Whatever the case I'd at least turn it down enough to be bouncing off of 0.
A bit lower since you can run in 24 bit.  But you prolly figured that much out, eh?
 
I've only made a coupe of SBD's so...
            ...don't know much about them.

[Javier Cinakowski]

my guess is the mix had a ton of compression...

[TNJazz]

Your meters typically won't display over on playback.  They'll peak at 0.

[panther65]

I tested and if overloaded on recording, it goes over on playback as well. There must have been some sort of limiter from that output.