Distorted Audio After Export 2024

I'm at my wits end.  I'm making music videos and the audio is absolutely fine when played back in timeline but after exporting there is distortion.  Crackly static sounds.  I thought it was a result of adding too many effects to the sound track/s so I separated the audio and took the audio track and edited it in Audition.  Then just popped that track back into Premier Pro (it was clean in Audition and clean when I played the track on a music player separately). Nope.  Adjusted the gain to 0.  Set a peak limit to 0.  Nope.  Set the limiter to 0.  Nope, got worse.  Put on a hard limiter.  Nope.  I've listened to the audio on the source material separately and there is no distortion.  ONLY when exporting in Premier Pro and this isn't the first time it's happened.  Someone please help.  Sadly Adobe doesn't GAF and there is nowhere else to find answers.  I suspect this is yet another Adobe flaw/failure and there is no solution but no amount of googling has helped and while I might sound ticked off (I am, and Adobe has so many flaws that they just don't care about and now refuse to give any support so they have it coming), I still deep down am hoping it's my fault and that there is some magic setting I'm missing so that I can just fix this and made videos.