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In what situations do you find yourself "pushed for time" to exactly match the EQ of other material?...and why would you be doing that anyway?
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In addition to doing what most everyone else here does (multitrack music production), I am a software developer, working in the voice application arena. We write software that allows people to call up a number (for example, Wells Fargo small business loan department) and "talk" with a computer to find out (for example) the status of your small business loan. It's all voice-activated stuff; the caller never actually speaks with a human unless they ask to do so.
Because Text-To-Speech technology isn't currently "good" enough, we use WAV snippets of words and phrases for the "voice" that callers interact with, linking them together so it sounds like a real conversation. For a recent application, we had hundreds of these WAVs, recorded with a voice artist over several different studio sessions, inevitably using slightly different mic placements/environments. As a result, the WAVs recorded at different times sound a bit different from each other (EQ and volume). When "concatenated" together (joining the various WAVs into a sentence), the sentence can sound a bit incongruent.
So, among other things, I was thinking of using this (or some other) plugin to get the WAV snippets to have the same EQ, so when they're concatenated, there won't be as much variation between the phrases/words in a sentence.
Sometimes either for a demo or for an update, we need to record and process some words or phrases in a matter of hours, hand them off to the developers to incorporate into the application, and then deploy the software for either the client or business development people to test or use. So sometimes time is fairly short.
Does that make sense?
Ted.