How do I separate two linked audio tracks?

I film with two tracks of audio, one from a shotgun mic, one from camera mic. When I import vision Final Cut Express counts it as two audio tracks, but they are linked (Stereo a1 and a2) and cannot be edited separately. I really, really need to edit them separately just to fade down the camera sound during grabs, a pretty simple requirement I would have thought. I've just about read the entire 1000 page manual without luck, Can anyone help? How do I edit these audio tracks separately?
Scott

Select the clip in the Timeline and hit Option l (lowercase L).
-DH

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