In an effort to determine whether the pitch shift of the residue is strictly proportional to the frequency spacing between the stimulus components, observers were asked to match the pitch of waves with component spacings of 100, 200, 300, or 400 Hz. The stimuli were sets of 6 or 12 equal‐amplitude sinusoids and the position of each set was varied throughout the frequency range in which the resiude was audible. The pitch shift of the residue showed a disproportionate increase with component spacing for stimuli containing low‐frequency components. Six‐component waves produced slightly larger pitch shifts than 12‐component waves, again when low‐frequency components were included. As the spectral location of the set increased, both effects decreased; once the lowest component in the stimulus was more than about five times the component spacing, both effects were minimal. The results indicate that the dominance region is a function of the absolute, as well as the relative, frequency of the components in this case.Subject Classification: [43]65.54, [43]65.35, [43]65.75.