Beach House “Beyond Love” Remake Project

This pack features the Ableton Live Project for my remake of Beach House’s Beyond Love, as featured in this YouTube video playthrough.

I put together this remake while recreating sounds for my Dream Stereo preset pack, a collection of Beach House synth presets. There isn’t too much processing going on in Ableton Live, I captured most of the effects within Pigments. Four of the synth tracks use Dream Stereo presets from Arturia Pigments, and two of them use RM-20 presets for Decent Sampler.

There are two electric guitar tracks in the project: distorted lead guitar in the first half and clean guitar arpeggios in the second half. For the distorted guitar I used Arturia Dist OPAMP-21 for distortion. For the clean guitar I recorded through a Boss chorus pedal.

The included Ableton Live Project features the following tracks:

  • Strings (Pigments)
  • Trumpet (Decent Sampler)
  • Organ (Decent Sampler)
  • Brass (Pigments)
  • Lead (Pigments)
  • Dist Guitar (audio)
  • Clean Guitar (audio)
  • Bass (Pigments)
  • Drums

This Ableton Live Project requires Ableton Live 11 or higher and uses the following plugins:

Synths

  • Arturia Pigments
  • Decent Sampler (free plugin)

Effects

  • Arturia Dist-OPAMP-21 (guitar only)
  • iZotope Ozone Imager 2 (free plugin)
  • Soundtoys Decapitator
  • Valhalla VintageVerb

All tracks have been frozen so if you’re missing any of the above plugins, you’ll still be able to hear the tracks and play the project. If you own the plugins, you can unfreeze the tracks to edit the sounds.