Curtains to control high frequency



One wall of my room is glass and I am about to install curtains over it to deaden high frequency reflections.

My question is, if the curtain fabric is relatively open weave linen and I am having them lined with a lightweight baby blanket type material, do you recommend one later of the lightweight lining, or two layers of the lining?

Thanks,
Shaq
shaq
My guess is you need to balance out your room. It's not only high frequencies giving you fits. It's reflections and a frequency imbalance within the two sides of your room. When you select curtains look for natural materials opposed to synthetic materials. Synthetics are frequency selective and natural materials will give you a more balanced sound. What's the other side of your room like?
Absorption panel it is not. Whatever you hear thru the curtain held in front of you will reflect from the glass. Curtains should help at high frequencies but you might think of some fiberglass absorption panels. I'm putting twelve 2'x4'x2" high density fiberglass (Johns Manville 817) panels on the wall behind sofa I'm sitting on (first reflection point) knowing, that they work only from approx 200Hz up. I wish I could use 4" panels but it looks worse on the wall (WAF).

http://www.jm.com/insulation/performance_materials/products/ci9_800series_spin-glas.pdf

Look at 812 1" panels. Their absorption coefficient shows good damping from 1kHz up. Thickness of the curtains in comparison to 1" thick panels suggests that curtains will help only at tweeter frequencies.
Use hanging vertical blinds.

They can be adjusted to let some light, and vary the high frequency absorption and refection.

Curtains absorb too much sound. You need some sound reflections.
Would not go with heavy curtains... too much damping. I put up some thin material curtains and it helped tame high frequencies. I already had venetian blinds, but needed more than that.
If you use vertical blinds I strongly suggest some with fabric on them vs. a solid vinyl.