agree, you’d rather tone down
being able to detect clipping would be useful to issue warnings indeed.
Signal too low-> “increate the output on the device you are modeling”
Signal too hot → “decrease” or in case of oocasional peaks indicate as well
I imagine a next level: a dedicated pedal board with a custom graphic indicating the mode 
| it could be “baked in” as factory board. That would be more intuitive than the plugin suddenly showing some kind of behaviour you don’t expect or see in other plugins. Migt give you more control to grab the user by the hand, even do “steps” with notes that appear and disappear in a certain order when starting the process etc.
