I would like to ask you is there an application where i could use
vumeters while I'm making a recording.
      

If you are using jack, then meterbridge is what you want.

If you are not using jack, you should consider switching since meterbridge
is what you want.
    

 Snd has all sorts of options
 http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html

 If you can get them to work with your setup there are all kinds of vst
 meters.

 There's this... tho' I don't know if it's what you're looking for:
 http://hasas.sourceforge.net/software.html

 This may be overkill:
 http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/CullingJ/pipewave.html

 JMax must have something
 http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/index.php3

 Same with PD
 http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/

 This looks cool as hell:
 http://www.baudline.com/
 
 This looks excellent:
 http://www.etcsk.com/linux/

 And this:
 http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/

 Galan has a scope:
 http://galan.sourceforge.net/

 This is really nifty
 http://extace.sourceforge.net/

 ...
 http://exef.xko.cz

 ...
 http://www.hyperreal.org/~est/oolaboola/

 And... of course, there's this:
 http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/Synaesthesia

 If you want to spend a little extra cash there's these:
 {And I founf bunches of places that sell themused whilst searching for these}
 http://www.icewalkers.com/opd/Business/Electronics_and_Electrical/Test_and_Measurement/Oscilloscopes/

 If you take a quick look in the sound sections of deslect there's
 all sorts of stuff listed for windowmaker XMMS, etc...