The need to glean AC signals from DC in the presence of common-mode noise frequently occurs in signal conditioning applications. AC coupling to an instrumentation amplifier (IA) or difference amplifier can be used to accurately extract the AC signal while rejecting DC and common-mode noise. Adding capacitors and resistors to AC couple the inputs of an instrumentation amplifier or difference amplifier seems like an obvious approach for AC coupling, but it has problems. The DC restoration circuits shown in this bulletin have the same transfer function but without the foibles.