Talking to Mike Martin of Predator Percussion brings to mind a single word: humility. This is a guy who doesn’t spend a lot of time bemoaning a workplace injury that snatched away his ability to play the drums for extended periods of time. It’s not a guy who sounds like he requires a lot of external validation. Mike is a guy who’s just working away in his spare time in his New Whiteland, Indiana shop making beautiful drums at fair prices using an unusual approach to produce uncommon results. Even his pricing is humble, starting at just $545 for a handcrafted stave snare drum. 

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S2 E9: Mike Martin of Predator Percussion

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S2 E9: Mike Martin of Predator Percussion

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