Background noise boosted on export

[Benjamin O'Keefe]

Hi all,

Having an issue where when I listen to my track in cakewalk the background noise is present however not loud enough to disturb the song, however as soon as I export the track the background noise gets heavily boosted?

I have played the track on my PC using Groove and VLC and on my phone using Muzio so I don't believe its anything to do with the audio player I'm using. I'm exporting at 16 bit depth with a 44.1k sample rate. I'm certain everything is going through the master bus when I export, and have tried both exporting the entire mix and bouncing the entire mix to one track and exporting that but it doesn't seem to make a difference

Again, I'm aware the background noise is there, I'm not attempting to eliminate it from the recording, just trying to stop it from boosting when I export.

I've attached my recording, hopefully you may play it in cakewalk and another music player and be able to discern the difference.

Any help at all is greatly appreciated, many thanks!!

Dark Track.mp3

[John Vere]