Season 5 audio volume - absurd gunshots gains

To put this simply: gunshots have WAY too much gain compared to all other sounds ingame.
My audio utility says enough: everytime I shoot it clips. It's SO * LOUD it clips.
For whoever reads this that does not understand anything about audio balance: gunshots are SO LOUD the speaker does not know that to do with itself when a gun is shot and outputs garbage, even at low volume.
For who knows: I had to set a -22dB audio gain to avoid the gunshots clips. -22. Are you guys OK? IT CLIPS. IT'S NOT OK.
I understand that you guys do not want gamers to hear footsteps a mile away, but this is not how it's done. I set up my equalizer with negative gains and a specific equalizer and now I don't get deafened by my own gunshots, with great expences of audio clarity, but I still hear footsteps. And how my speakers sound is nothing you can call cheating.
This is ridicolous: I have to distort severely the sounds of the game because gunshots are so loud they completely cover ingame abilities sound. I SWEAR: I COULD NOT HEAR A LOBA TELEPORTING at my side because of gunshots. They are THAT loud.
The thing that annoys me is that I love the original soundtrack of Apex Legends: pure gold. Nothing complex, but gold.
Now, after I avoided all efforts EA put into changing my habits, I had to distort it myself. I hate me for doing this.
PLEASE, do a better job at audio balance in the next season, because I HAD TO SET UP AN EQUALIZER to make the game sound right and it never happened in my life.
If footsteps were the problem, just have a range over that they can't be heared at all.