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Travis Norman
Full Name: Travis Dustin Norman
Birthplace: New Hope, Minnesota
Hometown: Red Wing, Minnesota
Years playing: 3
Reason started: I received a Bass and amplifier from my uncle one Christmas and I decided to teach myself how the hell to use the thing.
Favorite bass riffs: Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) by Metallica, Counterfeit by Limp Bizkit, Nothing to Gein by Mudvayne, for that fact, anything by Mudvayne!, Maxwell Murder by Rancid, Wynona's Big Brown Beaver by Primus, 7 Words by the Deftones, 46 & 2 by Tool, Butterfly by Crazy Town, and a few that I wrote.
Favorite quotes: "The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be." -Max De Pree
"We make our own suffering and we can escape it now."
-Buddha
Equipment used:
Basses:
Gremlin 3/4 scale, 4 string bass, black; Lotus full scale, 4 string bass, cream; Washburn XB 200 Fretless, 4 string bass, black.
Effects:
Zoom BFX708 bass effects processor, 60+ effects!
Heads:
Peavey 400 series Musician head. 200 watts normally.
Cabs:
Peavey 1x18" BW woofer (used by Josh), Clubman bass 1x12" speaker combo, Epiphone 1x10 speaker combo.
Playing out of: 2 Bose subwoofers, stacked. Not exactly my dream sound, in fact, not even a sound I like, but I'm too broke to buy anything! I mainly run my Gremlin into my Zoom pedal, then my pedal into my head, from my head to my cabs. Cabs are hooked up mono in a series. First to the top cab then to the bottom cab.
Dream Rig:
Ryan Martinie's (Bassist of Mudvayne) rig! 5-string active Warwick bass through 2 Peavey 8x10's and 2 Peavey 2x15's below them. Run each cab stack through a crossover amplifier, preferably Peavey, with low frequencies going to 15's and mids and highs to the 8x10's. That or a Gallien-Krueger Setup: An active 5-string Fender American Jazz bass through a GK 1001RB head through a 4x12 with a tweeter on top and a 1x18 with a tweeter on the bottom. Mmm... Bass nirvana... oh yeah...