Mixing Four Tracks To One Stereo Track

Hi,
In Logic 7.2.3,if I have recorded four backing vocal tracks, all doubled up, and I want them panned across the track, from left to right, is there a way that I can submix them to one stereo track, still keeping their pan positions, so I can apply processing to all of them together.
I tried doing this via a buss to aux track, but it only picked up one side of the stereo spectrum, which is no good.
I remember this was easy to do in Ableton Live, as you could directly output from one track to another track, but I cannot find this option in Logic.
Thanks,
Tristan.
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 3GB RAM

Send them to a bus. Buses are stereo in Logic and you can apply the same effects to the bus that you can to any track. The output from the bus is normally the main ouput (though you can change it) so it gets back into the mix.
Perhaps the easiest way is to route the I/O of the selected tracks not to Output 1/2 but to Bus 1 and do that for all your backing tracks.
Another way is to click on the Send button on the vocals track and route to Bus 1. Then ramp up the send pot, but check your levels since you are now sending both the original track and the bus to your output. If you don't want the originals to go into the mix, set the tracks to no output or use the first method I mentioned.
You'll probably want Bus 1 in your arrange window. To get it, open the track mixer, click on Global (to display all the objects in your system), scroll to to the extreme right and double click on the label Bus 1.
Hope that helps!
Pete

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