First time tent camper here.... what's your tarp/canopy setup?

If you already have a 4 person tent, I don't really understand your question. Are you looking for rain/overhead protection or ground protection?

I usually use a cheap, wal-mart medium duty tarp for additional ground protection, and use the rain fly the tent came with for water resistance. Does the tent not have a rain fly?

I am assuming you have a rainfly with your tent, so you are looking for extra ground cover.

As long as you have a halfway decent tent and don't plan on camping in a monsoon, just the tent should be fine. A normal tarp sized to be 3 inches or so smaller than the footprint of the tent if you really want it.

Yep, last time I went luxury camping we had one of these over two tents and a yuge 30x20 tarp on the ground. Worked really well. We had 2.5" rain over 3 days and the tent was still almost entirely dry inside.

Also if there are trees around you can use string, bungees or ratchet straps and a tarp to put an extra "roof" up if you don't want to lug around that E-Z up