Hey Jay, now that you've figured that out, what I really recommend you try is putting the effects in separate busses (instead in the effects bin of your instrument track). Then add sends in your instrument track to the busses that have the effects (left-click on the instrument track and select "insert send"). A send is like a volume control (in your instrument track, in this case) that you can use to adjust how much of the signal you want sent to the specified bus.
Make sure the effects busses output to your audio or to a bus that outputs to your audio.
With this method you can:
1) Easily control how much of the output of your instrument track to send to the effects
2) Have multiple instrument tracks use the same effects.