Need direction on mixing

Hey there.
OK, so I'm really a beginner with this, please bear with me.
I'm working on a project with a half dozen vocal tracks. Some of it is complicated so there's hundreds of little takes, ie regions. What I've been doing so far is constantly changing the gain of different regions in the sample editor as I go through to try to get the right balance. I'm not touching the mixer for now since I'm worried that boosting a track might work fine in one place, but later be too loud.
So there's the first question - can you adjust levels for tracks in the mixer only for one section of a project at a time?
OK, then, I'm planning, once I get to the end of recording everything, of duplicating each track and assigning each one a left and right for panning in the mixer. Basically, I was thinking to put one voice at +10 and -10, the next at +20, -20, etc. Does this approach make sense. Is there a simpler way to achieve this same result? [question #2...]
I'd like to take a course on mixing and really learn what's possible at some point, but right now I'm in a hurry. I'm planning to use this project as backing audio for a solo vocal concert I'm doing in about a month. So my main concern is getting a good balance of the voices, a sufficiently loud enough mix, but without distortion. I'm not sure if my computer monitors are the best preview or not since this will be playing back through a PA system.
Given my level with this and the time crunch I'm in, are there any super user-friendly processes in Logic that I could turn to for a basic upgrade of the sound? [question #3...]

You really need to take a few minutes and read the section in the manual for "Automation." Everything you want to do can be accomplished with automation, and once you've grasped the concept, it's easy and quite quick.
There are two other methods that you should learn about:
Read about "Groups" in the manual, where you can lock certain tracks together where changes made to one affects any other tracks in that same group.
Finally, search this forum for "Submix" which is where you can route certain similar tracks or sections via a bus to a dedicated aux fader, so that you can automate that. This enables you to break down your mix to just a few faders for easier control. For example, when mixing a band, often all the drums will be routed to a drum submix controlled by one fader, all guitar tracks to another submix, all backing vocals to another and so on. These submixes can also be automated, so that all guitars, using my example, can have their overall level controlled for different parts of the song. This may/may not be relevant to your vocal project.
So there's the first question - can you adjust levels for tracks in the mixer only for one section of a project at a time?
Yes - any section can be automated separately from any other section, or even bypassed altogether.
OK, then, I'm planning, once I get to the end of recording everything, of duplicating each track and assigning each one a left and right for panning in the mixer.
You can do that too, but to make your vocals thicker or bigger, you need to add slight variations to your duplicated track (EQ, delay, compression etc.) so that they are slightly different which will then appear to make them sound separated in your mix. Again, via automation, you pan individual tracks wider in some sections; closer in others.
So my main concern is getting a good balance of the voices, a sufficiently loud enough mix, but without distortion
At the mixing stage, don't worry about the overall volume of your mix. You can adjust this later. Keep your individual tracks fairly low (say, in the range of -18 to -8 dbFS) and your output level set so that it peaks at around -6 dbFS. Get your balance between tracks right first.
I'm not sure if my computer monitors are the best preview or not since this will be playing back through a PA system.
They'll be fine, but once you have your mix, play it on a wide variety of systems (car, home stereo system etc). If it sounds good on most playback systems, chances are it will sound OK via a P.A. Maybe at a sound check you'll make slight adjustments to the overall EQ depending on the venue.

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