A method is provided for noise distribution shaping of signals, particularly for the application in receivers for CDMA signals. The method includes the acts of generating a blanking control signal by comparing a received signal with at least one blanking threshold, adapting the at least one blanking threshold or the received signal according to an offset value depending on the amplitude of the received signal, and modifying the noise distribution of the received signal by applying blanking of the received signal under control of the blanking control signal.