You can make an input object in the environment and keep the fader at zero. But why not just do an audio strip and put (leave) that at zero and in record mode? Why not record mode? What is your moral or otherwise unavoidable issue with putting a channel strip in record or just input monitoring mode? Hm? Well? Spill the effing beans! Make Logic bloody great again! Logic has got the best plugins ever! You will admit (because I have got the best and truthest ever words of everybody ever!) that I am the greatest biggest Logic helper ever! No fake tips from me! They've inaugurated me with an official Apple T-shirt, you know! I am the first person of Logic! I am so very Logical. You are just a rude person! Fake news!
Sorry, what was the question again?