pausing

I use OBS for a multi-camera video recording solution for my tutorials -- however it is so hard to see that little tiny icon at the bottom that tells you if you're recording , paused or not recording. I've seen some basic solutions for Recording/Not recording... but nothing that really works...

I am using a shuresm7b attached to a cloudlifter attached to a focusrite solo audio interface. I will also post a pic of my specs below just incase that information is important. About a month ago my input audio would suddenly come to a full mute, after a couple of hours I had randomly fixed...

Without me switching scenes or doing anything out of the ordinary, OBS just paused my local recording for no reason. I do not have this on a hotkey or anything, and the stream continued meanwhile. Any ideas why this happened? Please find the log file attached (timestamp is 19:50:22.738: output...