Magnetic head having soft-magnetic material cladded core limb faces

A magnetic head for recording and/or reproducing magnetic information in a track of a magnetic information carrier, comprising

• a magnetic core having two core limbs formed from a ferrite, which core limbs constitute two opposing core faces located opposite each other, each of said opposing core faces having a cladding of a soft-magnetic material having a higher saturation magnetization than the ferrite,
• a tape contact face along which the information carrier is movable,
• a non-magnetic transducing gap present between the cladding of each opposing core face and terminating in the tape contact face, which gap has at least one layer of a first metallic material on each cladding and bonded layers of a second metallic material, the first metallic material being chosen from the group of Mo, Ti, Cr and NiCr, and
• an electric coil passing through a winding aperture and surrounding a part of the magnetic core,
• characterized in that each cladding comprises a first cladding layer of an alloy based on Ni-Fe on which a second cladding layer of an amorphous alloy based on Co-Ti and/or Zr and/or Hf-Nb and/or Ta is provided, each first metallic material of the transducing gap being directly provided on each second amorphous alloy layer of the cladding.