Even with constant VU's how would you expect to do on the fly adjustment? Via the control already used for shutter, or via the control already used for aperture. I think you have unreasonable expectations for a DSLR to behave handle and operate like a professional level video camera without ancillary devices. Which is why I advocate the use of an interface device such as a beachtek. That AGC can now be disabled solves about 50% of the audio deficiencies. Live VU meters would solve another 5% of the cameras audio deficiencies. The camera isn't really set up for on the fly adjustment either (its a camera, not a video camera) but hey, if you have the correct external gear then you use that.
Never was and probably never now will be. If you are serious enough to care about any of this then I cannot accept that you would not want a way of hearing what your microphone and mixer is hearing. It would be jolly lovely to have live VU's on the camera back, but they aren't an indication of the quality of the audio, only the strength of the signal. This device will have some form of VU's and a headphone socket. You then ride the levels on the mixer, be it an SQN field type mixer, or a breakout box with level controls like a beachtek. Nothing from your mixer is going to spike much above this, you have given the camera plenty of headroom. Thats your audio set as far as the camera goes. Set your camera up so that the tone is a solid -18db. Get a reference peak tone from your sound mixer. Here's how audio mixing for live video works. Read my post again and tell me I didn't outline my monitoring (with headphones) solution as well as that used by others (i.e. I said a visual reference alone was pretty much worthless.
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