December 26, 2007
Updated the SourceForts tutorial with the correct game directory folder for version 1.9.3. Thanks to Ruschbj for emailing me to let me know of the change that was made in this version!

October 15, 2007
Added a new FAQ question (#16) that deals with games crashing and/or sounds being distorted when you are dealing with dual core CPUs. If you are using a dual core CPU and are having problems when playing sounds with HLSS, be sure check out this FAQ question on how to fix the issue.

September 21, 2007
Added a tutorial on how to setup HLSS for Team Fortress 2.

July 30, 2007
The pictures for the Converting Wavs article have all been changed to accomodate the v11.5 release of dBpoweramp. It is now being recommended that everyone use this older version of dBpoweramp to convert their sounds to wav format. The newer release causes a 'hissing' sound in songs for some reason. So until Illustrate (the company who makes dBpoweramp) can fix this, you should be using v11.5.

July 21, 2007
Adjusted the Bass/Volume article. There is now 1 method to reduce bass and volume that should work fine for all sounds that are too loud for the mic for whatever reason. Added GoldWave 5.20 (latest) to the downloads section. Added a tutorial on how to set up HLSS for Zombie Master.

July 8, 2007
The new forums are now up and running! Be sure to check them out. Because of the new forums, the forum stats normally displayed on the left are currently unavailable, but we plan to have them restored soon. Thanks and enjoy the new forums!

July 4, 2007
Check out the announcement about our new forums that are coming soon, and for a link to beta test them right now! Happy 4th of July!

April 15, 2007
Added a tutorial on how to setup HLSS for Garry's Mod 10 (the version you purchase over Steam).

April 4, 2007
Added a link on the left for our new IRC channel.

March 28, 2007
In addition to our forums, we now have an IRC channel where users can come to chat, get help with HLSS, idle, etc. The server is irc.gamesurge.net, and the channel is #hlss. You can discuss this new addition here.

March 23, 2007
Happy Birthday to HLSS.US! We turn 2 years old today! It's been a pleasure helping everyone out so far, and we plan to keep doing so into the future!

March 22, 2007
Added v12 of dBpoweramp to the Downloads section and updated the 'converting wavs' tutorial to accommodate this new version. Be sure to update if you haven't done so already!

March 12, 2007
The new Steam update for the Source engine has been released! Now you can play .wav files over the microphone with good quality in Source based games! However, you must re-convert your sounds differently than you did before in order for them to play correctly, or they will sound fast-paced. I would recommend converting the ORIGINAL file instead of .wavs that you had already converted in the past, or you might experience problems with quality. I have updated the site tutorials and articles to accommodate the new codec. Click here to participate in our thread about this new patch. The new settings you must use when playing .wavs in all Source mods are: 16 Bit (CD) | 11025Hz | 1 'Mono' Have fun! And thank you VALVe for finally fixing the mic quality in Source games!

March 6, 2007
Great news from VALVe was released in last Friday's news update: We'll be releasing an update soon to both text chat and voice communication in the Source Engine that will improve communication for people in multiplayer games. We've completely rebuilt the text chat system, adding the ability to browse your chat history right in the chat window and a filter to remove messages that clutter your game screen. Voice communication will be getting a huge boost in quality, so if you have a microphone sitting on the corner of your desk collecting dust, now would be a good time to plug it back in. This is of course great news for HLSS if they improve the quality in Source games considering we have been stuck with poor mic quality along! Of course, we all hope the changes they make still allow us to use the most important command that makes HLSS possible: voice_inputfromfile

January 31, 2007
Modified the code on all of the pages to be HTML valid (HTML 4.01 Transitional). Also modified FAQ question #12 that deals with binds disappearing.