The term commonly used for the practice of setting the idle current in an output tube. Preamp tubes are biased as well, but they are biased only during the initial design of the amplifier and use ...
A capacitor that is connected from the power supply to ground. It "bypasses" the AC signals to ground, while passing the DC supply through. This is used to make the DC supply rail "clean", or free ...
A device consisting of two parallel plates separated by an insulator, called the "dielectric". Capacitors are used to block DC while passing AC. They are frequency-dependent devices, which means ...