The Vocal Performance
In "Hold On, We're Going Home," Drake delivers one of his most iconic melodic performances—blending hip-hop swagger with silky R&B crooning over a bouncy, feel-good groove that feels like a modern classic. The track's nostalgic 80s funk-soul vibe made it a massive crossover hit, instantly turning dancefloors into sing-along moments. These precise Auto-Tune settings are the secret sauce: they lock the pitch just enough to give Drake's voice that hypnotic, polished sheen while preserving raw emotion and groove—exactly why this sound became the blueprint for a decade of melodic rap and R&B.
The Official Auto-Tune Settings
Input Type: SopranoTracking: 80
Key: B
Scale: Minor
Retune Speed: 8
Humanize: 0
The Vocal Chain & Studio Gear
Drake’s vocals on this 2013 classic were captured with his signature high-end chain: a Sony C800G large-diaphragm tube condenser microphone running through a Neve 1073 preamp for rich, warm presence. Light compression—often a Universal Audio LA-2A or Tube-Tech CL1B—keeps things smooth and intimate before the Auto-Tune stage. This workflow, refined in the OVO studio with Noah “40” Shebib, gives Drake’s voice that expensive, radio-ready polish that defined the Nothing Was the Same era.
Track Facts & Production Trivia
- Produced by: Noah "40" Shebib, Majid Jordan & Nineteen85
- BPM: 100
- Key: B Minor
- Release Year: 2013
- Trivia: Drake and Noah “40” Shebib set out to channel the legendary Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson production duo on this record. Drake reportedly wrote and cut the entire song in just two hours, aiming to create a timeless R&B anthem that could play at weddings for the next decade.
I want to say thanks for posting these settings up! I see that you reply to some people that leave comments so this is a perfect chance for me to get some information. Your samples sound so crispy and almost like the actual song. My BIG problem and question is, how? I use FL Studio, and the problem that occurs. When I open up Autotune EVO and put the exact settings you do I get no effect or hardly any effect at all. If it does give some type of effect it sounds awful. What am I doing wrong? I want good autotune but can't seem to achieve it. Please take time to respond. Take care!
ReplyDelete2 Things could be going on here, 1st there might be interference with your vocals, such as un-needed noise, background room noise, computer hissing. The 2nd thing that could be going on is that you have too many vst's on top of Auto-Tune, make sure that Auto-Tune is the first vst on the channel which you have your vocal tracked to. No as for the Crispness, there's no preset that I can give you to say that it guarantees crispness, just mess around with an EQ higher the mids and highs until you get the desired results, if you don't have a deep voice, than remove bass from vocals completely. Hope this could help.
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