I would question your assumption that you use surround panning to make a sound "come from a far distance". Notwithstanding that, have you tried mixing the wet effect return with the dry original and getting that mix acceptable as stereo before applying the surround panning? Once you have the mix, try using it as a stereo source. This will need a different treatment to go to surround than a mono source would do, but I'm sure you are up to the job.

Im stupid :P, i never thought of that. that makes sense to me now.Thanks boswell

But wait!..the return wet signal is coming from a AUX track. wont it effect the other channel sends once i route the output of the aux to a new stereo bus?

It shouldn't do with normal routing. You don't say whether you are mixing on a console or with a DAW, but it should be possible to route the effect returns into the mix as though they were normal stereo channels. The Auxes are used for routing single channels or mixes of channels to an effect.

You don't necessarily need a separate bus that is the sum of the wet and dry from the channel in question, but you would need to be able to isolate those two components and mute everything else in the main mix to get the effect balance right.

When I've been doing surround mixes, I like to get things to work in stereo first, and then re-engineer for surround as necessary. There are things you can do with surround that work quite differently in mono or in stereo, and one of them is to put front-to-back movement on the tails of reverb effects. When carried out subtlely, that movement can present an unsettling effect on listeners, and used sparingly can be dramatic. In contrast, I have had performers at surround gigs wanting all their reverb to move rearwards, and that can get tiresome for the audience after a while.

im using Sonar X1 produser edition. please can you explain the "There are things you can do with surround that work quite differently in mono or in stereo, and one of them is to put front-to-back movement on the tails of reverb effects." part..just walk me through it

It's a technique used in surround mixing where the L-R positioning is stationary, but the amplitude envelopes on the front and rear mixes are dynamic. This can be used to create an impression of movement from front to rear over the heads of the audience. It's very effective on reverb.

An easy but not exact way to simulate it is to feed a sound into two separate reverb effects that are set up identically except for the attack and decay times. The dry sound is mixed with the shorter attack and decay stereo effect return and sent to the front L-R, and the longer attack and decay effect return is wet only and sent to the rear L-R. Give it a try on a short sound like a snare hit or pistol shot and experiment with various front/rear attack and decay times - it can be quite un-nerving in a way that simply cannot be created in conventional L-R stereo.