Curriculum vitae
Yuval OlshaDVLCE
Audio engineer · AV & live-event technician · video producer · builder
Six years in professional audio and video production. Owner and head engineer of TheBASEment Recording Studio since 2021, and AV technician for corporate conferences and galas of 150 to 300+ guests since 2024.
In-house video and motion producer at WZMH Architects. I also build the tools behind the work: client portals, a beat store with instant delivery, Windows utilities, ESP32 hardware and an AI CAD editor — shipped with AI-assisted development.
- Toronto, ON
- dvlce@thebasement416.com
- 647-575-5653
- Studio founded
- 2021
- Guests, largest AV event
- 300+
- Beats in the catalog
- 275
- Desktop tools shipped
- 12
Experience
Where I work
Audio Visual & Production Technician (Contract)
MJB Entertainment / The Marc Joseph Band
AV crew for a live-production company that delivers four- to eight-piece shows and full AV packages to corporate and private clients across Ontario.
- AV for conferences and galas of 150 to 300+ guests: CFC Summit North American Conference (Evergreen Brick Works), Swiss Chalet / Recipe 70th-anniversary conference, Electrofed Niagara Conference, TSMCA gala (Château Le Parc), IBX corporate party (Eglinton Grand), IKO Annual Awards Gala, NYE Amoré Gala.
- Front-of-house and monitor mixing on digital consoles; wireless microphone and in-ear monitor coordination for bands, MCs, speakers and awards segments.
- Technical point of contact with venue AV, planners and third-party AV, DJ and lighting suppliers.
- Own the touring AV inventory — console and IEM racks, microphones, cabling, transport — plus rentals reconciled against event budgets.
- Load-in to fixed door times, live troubleshooting, post-event reports; built and maintain mjbe.ca.
Owner & Head Audio Engineer
TheBASEment Recording Studio · thebasement416.com
Commercial recording studio with a repeat paying client base.
- Track, mix and master vocal, full-band, live and podcast sessions; run the client relationship from scoping and deposits to deliverables and revisions.
- Operate and maintain the signal chain and monitoring; specify and buy equipment against a budget.
- Manage about 1.6 TB of client session assets, and built the client portal where clients stream, review and comment on their sessions.
Video & Motion Production
WZMH Architects
In-house video and motion graphics for a national architecture firm.
- Produced the firm's 65th-anniversary employee reel from multi-camera interviews: selects, audio sync, lower thirds, colour, loudness, vertical and horizontal deliverables.
- Built the internal motion-graphics platform and Premiere Pro / After Effects template and automation pipelines, locked to the brand standard.
- Wrote the technical documentation the pipeline runs on.
Event AV Support (Contract)
Magen Boys Entertainment
- AV setup and on-site support for corporate and charity events at Toronto venues, from walkthrough to strike.
Founder
DVLCE / NoBreak Security Corp · advertising.dvlce.ca
- Websites, media hosting and analytics for small-business clients, with the hosting, access control, uptime monitoring and runbooks behind them.
- Incorporated NoBreak Security Corp (Ontario) in 2026: a local-AI security monitoring box with mobile and desktop apps.
Skills
What I bring
Live audio & AV
- Digital consoles (FOH + monitors)
- Wireless mic planning
- In-ear monitors
- Gain structure
- Playback
- Live multitrack recording
- Stage plots & power
- Load-in / strike
Studio
- Pro Tools
- FL Studio
- UAD / Waves / FabFilter
- UAD Sphere DLX
- Shure SM7B
- Rode NTK
- Mixing & mastering
- Loudness normalization
Video & motion
- Premiere Pro
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Multi-cam sync
- Colour
- Teams / Zoom / Meet hybrid events
Web & software (AI-assisted)
- Next.js / React
- Tailwind
- Node.js
- Python
- Electron
- Stripe
- Vercel
- Cloudflare Workers & R2
- Firebase
- Claude Code
- Local LLMs (Ollama)
Hardware & fabrication
- ESP32 / ESPHome
- PlatformIO
- Home Assistant
- Bambu P1S
- Prusa MK4
- Custom mounts & controllers
Operations
- Run-of-show & riders
- Post-event reporting
- AV inventory
- Vendor quotes & rentals
- Budget reconciliation
- Technical documentation
Selected builds
Things I made
DVLCE Beat Store
275-beat catalog with free tagged downloads, server-priced Stripe leases and instant delivery from a private R2 bucket.
Studio Client Portal
Clients of TheBASEment stream, review and comment on their own sessions, with a shared beats library.
NoBreak Brain Box
Home and small-business security monitoring with local AI inference, a mobile app, a desktop app and Home Assistant integration.
ClawSCAD
Desktop 3D CAD editor that joins OpenSCAD and AI in one live viewport, with checkpoint branching.
Splat Capture
Android capture to Gaussian-splat 3D models on a Windows host, with STL / 3MF export for printing.
Windows right-click tools
TinyTalk offline transcription, FFmpeg and document converters, RipWave, NetShare and more — 12 tools, no admin rights needed.
Education & training
Where I learned
Audio Engineering & Production / DJ Arts
Trebas Institute — Toronto · 2020 – 2021
Studio recording, live sound reinforcement, signal flow, acoustics and mixing; Avid Pro Tools coursework.