Willen;1079507I found a audio pre amp of BC547 (opereted at +6V) which has 2.2 Mega ohm base biasing resistor from positive and 270K base biasing resistor from ground. Why such large resistance? To get high gain? (Amp has 2.7K resistor at collector.)[/QUOTE said:
The AC gain of a transistor has nothing to do with the base biasing resistors.
With a 5.0V supply, a 2.2M resistor in series with a 270k resistor produces an unloaded voltage of only 0.55V which is too low to turn on a BC547 that needs a loaded base voltage of 0.6V.
Your transistor probably does not have an important emitter resistor to ground then it will not work properly.
Assuming that the collector is 3.0V then the collector current is 3V/2.7k= 1.1mA. The 270k resistor has about 0.6V but it changes with temperature changes. Then the current in the 270k resistor is 2.22uA. The 2.2M resistor has a voltage of 4.4V across it then its current is 2uA. So the base of the transistor has a bias current of only 0.22uA.
The DC current gain of a BC547 is from about 110 to 800.
If the current gain is only 110 then for a collector current of 1.1mA the base current must be 1.1mA/110= 10uA but your circuit does not have enough current so the transistor will be cutoff producing severe distortion most of the time.
You should learn how to bias a transistor. It is simple.