Thank you for all your plugin development, and I especially treasure this one. I had a minor incident yesterday when recording, and I don't believe Audio Monitor had anything to do with it, but for the sake of looking at this scientifically, I need to rule it out.
I've had my audio input filters for my vocals mic "perfected" for months to produce an acceptable output. In an OBS recording session yesterday, the output's volume came out much lower than normal. Then, in a subsequent session (after I closed and relaunched OBS), the recording's volume went back to normal. The only change I can (currently) recall doing was changing the volume of the Audio Monitor filter. But this setting isn't supposed to ever affect the recording volume at all... right? I guess I'm just seeking some certainty on that.