Editing audio tracks simultaneously

I'm spending way too much time editing my video's two audio tracks (A1a, A1b) the same way twice. As an example I want to set keys on my audio to bring down the volume in places and up in other places. What I've been having to do is set keys on track A1a and do the same exact thing on track A1b. I don't want to link the two audio clips together with the video, but only link the two audio tracks together so what ever I do to one audio track will be applied to the other. However, even when I link the video to the audio tracks and adjust the audio level to one track it doesn't set that level on the sister track. I'm assuming this is something pretty simple, but I can't seem figure it out. I can get what I want by doing it twice but as you know time is a commodity.
Thanks

You could set the two clips as a Stereo Pair (Option L), or just make the needed changes on one clip, then when you're done,copy it and use Paste Attributes->Levels to the other clip.
-DH

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