Hi there everyone, please persevere with what might be a very long post :)

Also, I'll preface this by saying I have done a fair bit of research into this before I came begging for help here, but the information I found was mostly conflicting, so I thought I'd ask you lovely people instead!

Anyway, in a nutshell I'm a music student shortly going into my final year and for my major project I'll be attempting to record a percussion concerto by myself in the studio, multitracking each part (of which there are four). I was trying to get it all done before the new semester (and inevitable) pandemonium starts, and so I've been booked into the studio on the 14th for a week.

Unfortunately I've realised I actually know very little about recording techniques, what few skills I've picked up in that area are firmly based in post-production... so basically I'm here to try and get some advice on mic choice/placement so I can make this recording sound as good as possible, this contributes 25% of my final degree mark so I want it to be good!

So enough backstory, here's the instrumentation of the 4 parts:

Part 1:

5-octave marimba

Part 2:

5 mounted toms, mounted tambourine, snare drum, bongoes and vibraphone (which will be recorded by itself)

Part 3:

Assorted cymbals, concert bass drum, snare drum, temple blocks

Part 4:

5 roto-toms, concert bass drum, mounted tambourine, snare drum, brake drum.

So basically I'm just wondering how the hell do I go about Micing each setup, and what mics should I use? The marimba part is definitely the most important, but for all the parts I want to get the right balance between definition of each note and overall sound. Ideally I don't want to have to faff about with eq-ing and all that too much during editing, so I'm looking for the best initial sound from each set-up.

I think that's everything, thanks for reading to the end, and sorry for being cheeky and asking such a large question, but after all the conflicting information I've read, I thought I'd just come straight to the experts :P

Thanks,
Ed