A receiver, system, and method for performing equalization. The receiver includes a multi-channel chip equalizer for receiving a plurality of receive baseband signals and restoring chip pulse shapes of a plurality of transmit baseband signals transmitted by a plurality of transmit antenna to produce a plurality of equalized output streams and a correlator for correlating the plurality of equalized output streams with a correlation signal to reduce gradient noise in the plurality of equalized output streams. The method of equalizing includes receiving a plurality of receive baseband signals and restoring chip pulse shapes of a plurality of transmit baseband signals transmitted by a plurality of transmit antenna to produce a plurality of equalized output streams and correlating the plurality of equalized output streams with a correlation signal to reduce gradient noise in the plurality of equalized output streams.