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Don't worry about echos too much if you are close micing, unless your room is practically an echo chamber. As someone else suggested earlier, imagine being the mic, all up close and personal with the speaker. Now listen for the echos. Hard to hear over the enormous racket that speaker is making, huh? Seriously, in any kind of normal room, the level of the reverberation is going to be so low at the mic relative to the output of the speaker as to be almost non-existent. Also important to note is that playing the amp louder does not make reverberation worse or better. Yes the sound coming back from the room gets louder, but it is in direct proportion to the sound from the speaker getting louder as well. Setting aside reactions of family/neighbors, the only thing that's going to happen as the amp gets loooOOOUUD is that it will sound better and record better. 
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