I will probably get flak for this but.......I would bet that's a Line 6 POD with a Fender Tweed setting.

If not, you would definitely want to look at a tube amp with a good clean channel. IE: Fender Twin Reverb, Tweed, Bassman or the like.

I highly doubt you will be able to get that sound out of your crate. There is that slight dirt that comes in from the tubes. Nice. I'm not sure you could get that even with a Tube Crate. They tend to pander toward Metal Heads. IMHO.

Tone is in the fingers. (Just my way of making excuses in advance since I always get these guessing games wrong.) But that intro just says strat through a Fender amp turned up just to the point the dirt starts. I'll go further out on the limb and guess one of those middle pickup positions 2 or 4 - but I'm a tele guy so what do I know.

bobrogers i completely agree with u on the pickup setting...im willing to bet nething hes is using the bridge pickup

thanks guys....i gotta get a fender amp hahah

Some advice from Frank Zappa...

"...a cheesy little amp // had a sign on the front said 'Fender Champ' // and a second hand guitar // it was a stratocaster with a whammy bar"

That is a similar tone to Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "The Impression That I Get." It's a tad dirtier.

That is classic Fender Strat through great clean tube channel sound.

Codemonkey wrote: Some advice from Frank Zappa...

"...a cheesy little amp // had a sign on the front said 'Fender Champ' // and a second hand guitar // it was a stratocaster with a whammy bar"

Frank was wrong. If you have no standards you get many chances in life to play a song that goes like ....

thebest way i have found is to use a 5watt tube amp and crank that son of a butch so the power tubes get use!if i can find my recording ill post it.

.., miley cyrus is one of my fave... whats wrong with her? well sorry for asking

:shock:

Well she probably doesn't have soul, first off.

As the others on here have suggested, that sounds like single coils though a fender amp. However, if you got the blues touch you can pull it off through a practace amp that clips to your belt. Try working with what you got before buying an amp on the fly to chase a particular sound.

...and just to be self-contradictory, the amp is the most important peice of the signal chain (in my opinion) and if you are not satisfied with yours, it will be hard to be satisfied with anything you do with guitar.