Audio mixing in FCP: anyway to put a peak limiter on the entire mix?

I know how to apply audio filters and effects to individual audio tracks, but maybe I'm missing something obvious.
I come from a music production background, typically, we will have effects on the individual tracks, but then there will also be some effects on the stereo mix (master bus), such as a mastering limiter or peak limiter.
I haven't seen anyway to do something like this within FCP.
I have FCS, I have SoundTrack Pro, but I haven't used it yet - is this something you need to do with SoundTrack?

Thanks! Even though I've got nested sequences in my project, it didn't dawn on me to take the whole final timeline, and nest it all one more time, in order to get down to two tracks of audio and video. You're absolutely right, you can apply effects to the whole audio mix, then.
Of course, after spending the day playing with Sound Track, I'm seeing the possibilities there, it's a much more well-developed application for editing and tweaking the audio mix, more and better effects, but there is sort of a "disconnect" going on when you have to be going back and forth between the two applications.

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