How To Get This Sort Of Sound?

It's hard to tell, but to me it sounds like an amp sim. That drive sounds digital rather than tubey. If you're miking a real amp, I'd say dial in a clean tone then boost the input until you have a slight breakup. If you have a nice compressor pedal, put that in the input chain. Delay and chorus can go in the loop, or add them with plugins in the DAW.

Something I've tried before with mixed results is this. Using a stereo delay pedal (TC Flashback), I put the pedal in the loop of the amp. Then one of the stereo outputs from the pedal goes back to the amp, while the other goes directly into the audio interface. Then the two signals are recorded as separate tracks and mixed together. It sounded pretty cool once I got the phase issues sorted out. The direct output from the delay gave the kind of brittle, super clean digital delay sound you hear in this clip.
 
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