A cochlear implant system comprising: a microphone for providing one or more audio signals; a sound processor configured to process said one or more audio signals of the microphone; and an implantable cochlear stimulator communicatively coupled to the sound processor and configured to apply stimulation representative of the one or more audio signals to a patient via a plurality of electrodes to one or more stimulation sites within the duct of the patient's cochlea; wherein the sound processor is configured to direct the implantable stimulator to: apply a main current to main electrode which is a first electrode included within the plurality of electrodes and associated with a first pitch, concurrently apply a compensation current to compensation electrode which is a second electrode included within the plurality of electrodes and associated with a second pitch during the application of the main current, and optimize an amount of the compensation current to result in a target pitch being presented to the patient that is optimally distanced from the first pitch, characterized in that the compensation current is out-of-phase with the main current in order to steer a current field resulting from stimulation of the first electrode away from the first electrode in a direction opposite to that of the second electrode so that the target pitch is distanced from the first pitch in a pitch direction opposite a pitch direction of the second pitch in relation to the first pitch. a microphone for providing one or more audio signals; a sound processor configured to process said one or more audio signals of the microphone; and an implantable cochlear stimulator communicatively coupled to the sound processor and configured to apply stimulation representative of the one or more audio signals to a patient via a plurality of electrodes to one or more stimulation sites within the duct of the patient's cochlea; wherein the sound processor is configured to direct the implantable stimulator to: apply a main current to main electrode which is a first electrode included within the plurality of electrodes and associated with a first pitch, concurrently apply a compensation current to compensation electrode which is a second electrode included within the plurality of electrodes and associated with a second pitch during the application of the main current, and optimize an amount of the compensation current to result in a target pitch being presented to the patient that is optimally distanced from the first pitch, apply a main current to main electrode which is a first electrode included within the plurality of electrodes and associated with a first pitch, concurrently apply a compensation current to compensation electrode which is a second electrode included within the plurality of electrodes and associated with a second pitch during the application of the main current, and optimize an amount of the compensation current to result in a target pitch being presented to the patient that is optimally distanced from the first pitch, characterized in that the compensation current is out-of-phase with the main current in order to steer a current field resulting from stimulation of the first electrode away from the first electrode in a direction opposite to that of the second electrode so that the target pitch is distanced from the first pitch in a pitch direction opposite a pitch direction of the second pitch in relation to the first pitch.