aux track sanity scheck

Hi,
Can I run this past my fellow SONARites? (as there seems to be a lot of ways to achieve this)
 
Basically, I'm looking to record a guitar track, and then freeze it with amp sim etc - and then print the FX to a seperate track.
 
Here's what I've done:
Set up a send from the guitar track - to a new aux track. FX on the aux track - set to 100% wet
(so far so good)
To bounce this - I just -record- on to the aux track - and I'll have a print of the FX.
 
This works fine - and then I guess I'll just set the original "send" level to 0 (sine the FX are now printed on my aux track)
 
Does this sound like a sensible way to print my guitar track, with the FX printed seperately?
It just feels slightly counter-intuitive, as I'm not "bouncing" or "freezing" anything (and then archiving the original tracks)
 
Thanks for any input...
 
EDIT - I see that "recording" the aux track, just prints the -guitar- part, which then runs through the FX on the aux track.
This can then be bounced - as the "FX only" track.
Is this too long winded?
 

Hi jbraner,
Yep, either the way you mention in your edit or the way jatoth mentioned will work. That said, unless recording to an aux track gets you something from the effect you're using I'd just make a copy of the original track, add an effect and then bounce/freeze it.
 
Now, if you wanted to, say, send a single track to four different tracks, each with their own amp sims or something, then I might use the aux track method with a patch point, but the duplicate/freeze method is faster for what you're describing.
 
Dean

Also, If you just disable Input Echo on the Aux track, you don't have to alter the Send on the source track.