StandardGuyTayo’s Production Prowess Carries PRESSPLAY SMG & Yunos on In My Heart

By Emmanuel Esomnofu

When a song successfully sustains the taste and likeness of the listener, they highly praise the artiste for creating a beautiful masterpiece, forgetting to shower praises on the individual behind the beat and music production or song engineering, the individual whose sleepless nights made sure the song has a successful output with an impressive sound mix. The producer who is also a core influencer of song production and success. The song In my heart by PRESSPLAY SMG featuring Yunos which was produced by Adeyemi Temitayo, popularly known as  StandardGuyTayo experienced not just a superb production process but an impressive output on a top tier level.

In My Heart was released in 2024 as a song on the Urban High album by PRESSPLAY SMG. The music itself comes in at a very fast pace laced with speedy drumstick instruments. This speed breeds the energy present in the song. StandardGuyTayo does a great job by enabling In my Heart to be a song that can be adopted for dancing or during gym sessions. He understands the essence of the drums in this song, which he made to be  the central flow of the sound.

StandardGuyTayo prowess on the instrumental doesn’t limit itself to the rhythm of drumsticks or drumbeat alone, he engages the dynamic flow of electronic sounds with soothing melodies. His mixture of several beat tools is a real stand out, this shows in professionalism and the skill to identify sound synth, when to take it low or slow and where the tempo needs to go high or where the sounds needs to move aloud or calm.

One note of attention in the song is the vocals of the featured artiste, Yunos. On the fast paced instrumental, how StandardGuyTayo was able to create a calm mix and master on Yunos voices, syncing with beat flow without technical obstructions or any lag in the vocal. StandardGuyTayo also employed some vocal effects like reverb on Yunos  voice in the song.

Apart from the reverb, synth sounds and thorough mix of the drum and electronic instrumentals in In my Heart, the song recording quality is high. Despite the high sound of the song, the output is clear as the air when the listener savours the music. There is absence of wavy or unfiltered noises in the song background. This is evidence that StandardGuyTayo did this record alongside the artistes in a professional studio with strict sound proof that resists any form of sound altercation.

The undoubtable fact about StandardGuyTayo production and engineering on the song In my Heart, by PRESSPLAY SMG featuring Yunos is a well organized mixture of sounds, where both the instrumental and the artiste’s vocals and lyrics match the flow and rhythm. StandardGuyTayo careful arrangements shows how experienced he is. Even in his experimentation of the drum beat and electronic sounds, he was able to infuse both without complexities in the sound output. StandardGuyTayo throughout the track reveals his core ability in understanding how a standard mix and mastering should be done. From the song, one could say StandardGuyTayo is a producer that has an open and keen ears for listening and sensing the compatibility of sounds. He has the ability to discern what fits in or what doesn’t, a prowess every other producer must emulate.