Adjusting kinki

So recently ive been told my guitar's string action is too high. What that means is the bridge on which the strings rest upon is set high. This would mean the strings are higher up from the fretboard and pressing down on the strings are harder plus when u let go the strings go up faster and make some vibrating noise (well i sure call it noise as it is unwanted). This noise was why i palm mute all the time. It irritates me personally though most ppl dont seem to notice while others thinks its a natural sound of the electric guitar and it adds to the sound.

Either way i notice it, i dont like it, so ive been trying hard to remove it completely. Yesterday i lowered the bridge and lo and behold, the "noise" went down quite a bit, almost to unnoticeable levels. Finally i was getting just the pure single note i was picking and not some "harmonics" or body along with it ._. .

Not only that picking the strings went from kinda resistive to sliding over a rubber mat sorta feel. It was such a drastic improvement and i lowered it just a little bit as i like to avoid strings hitting two frets at any point on the fretboard, though ive been advised that metal guitarists who play with distortion set it damn low as with distortion on u cannot hear the fret touching the adjacent strings when picked. That is true actually but i am not only a metal music player. So i lowered it just a little.

Still the difference was very big, it has become far easier to pick notes, legato and playing chords as well as the strings need less force applied to them to budge and in general more flexible.

Oh and on other things a friend finally told me how to intonate my guitar. Now what that means is....okay first google tune-o-matic bridge. okay see the metal pivots on which the strings rest on? okay it is possible to move them back and forth and thus effectively changes the strings maximum length. Now this is essential as the strings are of different thicknesses and does not vibrate at a uniform frequency ratio at different fret notes compared to each other. What this means in english is that all the strings behave differently. To compensate for this the different strings are set at slightly different lengths. (must remember that the fret positions are the same for all the strings ) .

So the method is simple. I first tune the open string. then i play the 12th fret of the string. If the note is higher in pitch than it should be move the pivot back. re tune from open and play the 12th, basically keep tweaking until both open and 12th string are dead on perfect note. Rinse and repeat on all the strings and you have a properly intoned instrument. The difference may seem slight but i notice some improvements in the notes when i play scales or arpeggios, it seems to sound the way its supposed to, if that makes any sense when i say that :P.

Anyways thats it for now, oh and considering to buy a seven string as of now. More details on that later.