I get it now when I tried adding effects the spider way it didn't work because I didn't output the spiders correctly and in most cases, at all.
Instead of using the effects outputs after inserting all the input wires, I literally attempted to connect the splitters output directly to the mixer with the last output slot to the right instead of the outputs directly from the effects modules :/
The outputs all work fine, I realized that no effects are triggered when you use a blank output for the mixer and that's the clean signal :O
The effects and their inputs have to be added to the respective areas to be audible and their outputs have to be used directly since the splitter's already used up for the inputs. I'm not even gonna attempt trying to use thor as one of those until way later lol.