Bass parallel compression setting up of tracks

[Stoneroses63]

When I record bass I usuall do parallel compression with the bass being bussed from an original track to two stereo tracks ..one clean, one with compression...My question is, for the originial bass track that I'm busing to the 2 other stereo tracks, can I setup that track as an Aux or instrument track rather than an audio track so I can save track countage and not have that track thats bussing the bass as an audio track? Forgive me if this is an easy question...I'm still new to protools...Thank you

-Brian

[guitardom]

hey,

input your bass to a mono aux track

set the output of the aux to a buss output

create 2 mono audio tracks

set the inputs of each of these to the buss output of the aux

record arm and go!