It's not unreasonable to get a tone somewhere close, no. But to get a tone as rich and noise-free as his is only going to be obtainable through racks of compressors, noise gates, sonic maximizers, and other signal prossessing that allows them to dial in pitch perfect tones...
Keep at it, you're only in the first steps of being on the same journey that every guitarist and hobbyist to ever search for tone has set out on. Welcome to the journymans club.
People will tell you that solid state v. tube is a matter of taste but when you get deeper into the tone search you will eventually find that tube saturation is the epitome of tone and digital circuits are largely the enemy to tone. Digital effects are nice to start with so you get an idea of how effects work together and you get an idea of what tone you actually want... but there is no modeling amp or effects modeler that will replace the originals. Remember that. If you can afford the real thing, go for it. You won't be sorry.
