In wireless communications, adaptive gain control may be performed by scaling of signals before and after a transform. A received signal power may be non-causally scaled to a first level within a desired range before transforming the received signal. The scaled signal is transformed between a time domain to a frequency domain and then its power is again non-causally scaled based on the first level. A feed forward circuit may be used in the power scaling. Different portions of the signal may be power adjusted independently of other portions. The different portions may be separated on a per-channel basis. Power scaling may be done on a symbol-by-symbol basis.