The less tense your bass pedal is, the faster it is. But it also produces a smaller sound. Play around with it and find out what you like best. I like it when it's quite tense because you get a lot of rebound out of that and you can use that to make huge continuous beats.
Not sure what you mean with the beater, but if you mean how hard you hit the actual head, well, you hit it depending on how hard you're regularly playing and whether or not you want to accent it. Accents are hard on a bass drum though...
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