Audio Gain Adjustment for LOUD sounds sources?

Any developers know if a hardware adjustment like an audio level gain control is possible within a third party application. My canon digital camera allows me to manually attenuate loud sound sources with the assistance of a peak meter to prevent distortion from loud sound sources such as those in a live concert setting.
It's sad to see all these youtube video clips from live concerts with totally blown out audio which could have been prevented by a simple mic gain adjustment.

OK, I might have found a workaround. If you are indeed talking about mono audio mapped to stereo, there's a fairly simple solution: instead of using Audio Gain on a clip in a sequence, simply use it a on clip in the bin/Project Panel instead. To do this, just select the clips you want to use Audio Gain on, and then go to Clip > Audio Options > Audio Gain (CS5.5 has added this to the right-click menu). Even when mapped to stereo, there is no crash--at least, not in my testing. It seems to be OK even when the clips are already used in a sequence; note that it won't affect clips already in the sequence, though.
Does that work for you? Just did a quick test here...

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