Detach and edit audio in multicam

I have 2 camera angles and 3 audio tracks.
Camera 1 has Left and Right Stereo.  Left is Vocals, Right is the CD track.
Camera 2 has just a single track that is the auditorium.
I've used MultiCam to sync the two camera feeds and placed them in FCPX.  However I can't figure out how to now break apart the audio in camera one so that I can reduce the left (vocal), and increase the right (CD Track), and then combine them to be a stereo.
Thoughts?  How do I break apart the audio of a multicam so I can edit left and right independently?

You have to modify the original clips in the angle editor.
Click the Camera 1 clip. Go to the audio panel in the inspector and choose 'Dual Mono' as the channel configuration. Control-click Camera 1 clip to open it in its own timeline. That gives you control over vocals and the CD track. You can then set levels and pan for the individual tracks.
If you want to add the auditorium audio to the Camera 1 timeline, select the Camera 2 clip in the Event. Press Shift-3 to make the next edit 'Audio Only', and use Q to attach the audio tracks from Camera 2 to the timeline of Camera 1. You'll have to sync the audio yourself. Then you can assign pan and volume controls to the Camera 2 audio in the Camera 1 clip.
When you then edit the multicam clip, only switch the video and keep the audio angle as Camera 1.

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