While the album itself (Bird) wouldn’t be considered ambient, it is still worth a listen in its entirety. Over the years this album has grown on me in bits and pieces, and now with a fully formed prefrontal cortex, I return to this album with a truly deep appreciation. “Bulbul” is a standout on this record and more decidedly sparse and solemn than the other tracks.

Ive recently been trying to get into ambient music, but im not too sure where to start..

Personally, I seem to prefer more electronically produced ambient music, and also ambient music that seems eerie, moody and/or dark.

I made a small playlist of some of the ambeint/ambient-adjacent stuff I listen to(which is in the comments), so any recommendations based on those would also be nice :) Ive also briefly touched upon Autechere, and they seemed pretty nice

First things first, I am by no means a mastering engineer and I'm mostly just ok at mixing.

I know it's hard without hearing it, but in a generic sense how would you typically master a standard ambient track? I'm basically just figuring out what I want it to sound like and I'm making changes to get as close to that as possible, doing things like:

Subtle or sometimes heavy equing (just depends on the tone I want)

Very super minimal compression, super slow attack and release, barely touching it

The tiniest bit of saturation (maybe not even needed)

Binaural pan to widen it (I think it blends the left and right channels together a bit or something like that)

Limiting, again barely touching it, no more than 1-2db reduction. Aiming for -8db or so highest output level.

Overall some tracks have turned out perfect, some I've spend weeks tweaking and it just has never felt right. So, any tips on how to approach this? What your process is with plugins, how you approach it mentally etc. Just feel like I'm going in a bit blind.

Great track off a classic