Tremolo Bridge Height leads to increased tension?

[genesis]

hi guys, juz wanted to ask if i lower my bridge height, would the string
tension increase?

[Vai the god of Sound]

Actually lowering the bridge height (lowering the action) decreases the tension of the strings...whereas raising the bridge will raise the tension...

[genesis]

what about the bridge height? if my treble side is higher then my bass side? wad problems would it cause?

[Ankhnaten]

Really more an intonation issue than a tension thing. Think of when you bend a string across the fingerboard...you are raising the note's pitch because the string is being pushed and raising the tension there. But if you have raised the height of your bridge so far that it's really affected tension alot, you must be playing slide...lol

Using the note-bending idea again, you are also bending the note slightly sharp when you push a string to a fret. It's only a few mm push to the fret, but it's there.

As for having one side higher than the other, it ain't hurting anything. Most people have the bass side higher. So long as you reset the intonation to work with whatever settings your bridge is at, you'll be fine. It's all personal preference...

[darren wilson]

Raising or lowering the string height doesn't increase the open-note string tension. If it did, it would increase your pitch as well.

Higher action will, however, increase the "feel" of tension, because you have to push the strings down further (thus stretching them more) in order to fret notes. Because of this extra stretching, it will also throw off your intonation, because the difference between the fretted note and the pure harmonic will be much greater than on a guitar with low action.