I wish he was higher in the mix, but it isn't a bad tone by any means. I gather that Rick Turner basically doorstepped Stanley after a gig and said 'great playing, bad tone' or words to that effect. I'm not the biggest fan of Stanley's tone, especially when he first got the Alembic basses. Way too twangy for my tastes, and it seems like he was fretting out a bit at faster speeds with a tell-tale 'quack' to the notes. I saw a rig rundown a few years back where he was using small tube guitar amps for the high end. To me that is what I'm not so fond of, as I don't think his tone mates together very well. There is rumbling low end and an blizzard of crunchy top end, and nothing much joining these two halves. There is recent footage of RTF playing Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy if you want to directly compare their sound then and now.